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How to use filing in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Filing means any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving. Example: “The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.”

Examples of filing by meaning

nounAny particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.

  • The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.

nounSomething that has been officially filed; a document on file.

  • Mueller said in a court filing that Cohen had admitted he briefed Trump and unidentified Trump family members about the progress of the project more extensively than was previously known.2018 November 30, Jon Swaine, The Guardian

More sentences with filing

  • I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.From the entry opinion
  • The applicants kept filing into the room until it was full.From the entry file
  • The fitter was chipping and filing a workpiece clamped in his vise.From the entry chip
  • The fitters were chipping and filing furiously to meet their deadline.From the entry chip
  • My boss didn't tell me to reorganize the filing system; I did it off my own bat.From the entry off one's own bat
  • They only met the deadline by working most of the night and making a transom filing.From the entry transom
  • They worked into the night and sent an associate to make an over-the-transom filing.From the entry over the transom
  • Don't bother filing a complaint, the regulators are bought.From the entry bought
  • The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.From the entry bankruptcy
  • The clumsy filing system has been a huge headache.From the entry headache
  • The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.From the entry lawsuit
  • I have been dragging my feet about filing my taxes.From the entry drag one's feet
  • The “fair value” of Amazon's investment in Anthropic is about $13.8 bn, according to regulatory filings.2025 July 12, “Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to gain edge on AI rivals”, in FT Weekend (Companies & Markets section)…. From the entry fair value
  • Trump Media noted that risk in SEC filings, saying: “Donald J.2024 March 26, Matt Egan, “Trump’s Truth Social is now a public company. Experts warn its multibillion-dollar valuation defies logic”, in…. From the entry TMTG
  • WIPO reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents.2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019. From the entry related
  • Filing cabinets, shelves, paper clips or poster tubes are introduced as examples of collectional artefacts.2017, Beat Signer, Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces, page 57. From the entry collectional
  • The formulaic repetitiveness of filing and stuffing envelopes appeals to me in some fundamental life-affirming way.2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 106. From the entry repetitiveness
  • Nonprovisional patent applications undergo full Patent Office review and establish the filing date.2011, Dean O. Smith, Managing the Research University, →ISBN, page 245. From the entry nonprovisional
  • Zombies began filing in, hundreds of them, filling up the gym, heading in our direction.2009, E. Van Lowe, Never Slow Dance With a Zombie, page 207. From the entry zombie dance
  • Two filing fees are therefore incurred, and the total exceeds that of the nonprovisional alone.2007, M. Henry Heines, Patents for Business, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry nonprovisional
  • Once there, he became a jailhouse lawyer, filing complaints about everything from prison food to his attorneys.2001 June 24, David S. Jackson, “Murder Most Foul”, in TIME, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2016. From the entry jailhouse lawyer
  • Woodruff tried to "unstrike" her answer by filing an amended one.1987, West's South Western Reporter - Volume 721, page 870. From the entry unstrike
  • Typing, research, editing, filing, lay-out: all sorts of tasks for all sorts of people.1985 April 13, “Help”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry snowed under
  • People inside dealing and dialling, filing and invoicing, collating and collecting, debiting and crediting.1969, Michael Feld, Super Shelley’s Mein Kampf, London: Ross, →OCLC, page 168. From the entry wanderlust
  • Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC…. From the entry doubleplusungood
  • Geographically as above, but filing the dailies by expiration date instead of by their numbers.1920, James Newton McCord, A Textbook of Filing, page 124. From the entry daily
  • Were you a party to any suit terminated within the year immediately preceding the filing of the original petition herein?2010, Carl Battle, Legal Forms for Everyone, page 192. From the entry herein
  • By filing off the serial numbers, she was able to make the universe her own, to change as she needed to.2002 January 15, David Thornley, “Re: harry potter”, in rec.games.int-fiction (Usenet). From the entry file off the serial numbers
  • I've received a few pokes about filing off the serial numbers and trying to sell it as an independent work.1998 March 6, Julie Lim, “Help!”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet). From the entry file off the serial numbers
  • Richard's old Olivetti electric had been put aside for the time being on top of one of the filing cabinets.1983, Stephen King, Word Processor of the Gods. From the entry electric
  • Thus far, these pronuclear public interest law firms have usually contributed friend-of-the-court briefs to existing litigation, rather than filing suits themselves.1980, Constance Ewing Cook, Nuclear Power and Legal Advocacy, page 23. From the entry friend of the court
  • Filing a complaint against a police officer in New Bedford without the benefit of witnesses is difficult, if not impossible.1977 August 20, David Brill, “Civil Custody Law Harasses New Bedford Gays”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 7, page 3. From the entry command
  • Geographically by the territory controlled by an Agency, filing the dailies by their numbers back of the guide indicating the locality.1920, James Newton McCord, A Textbook of Filing, page 124. From the entry daily
  • Though several non-native ETF issuers have launched crypto funds this year, this is the first filing for a fund tied to LTC.2024 October 15, Helene Braun, “Ex-Valkyrie Founder’s Canary Capital Group Files for First Litecoin ETF”, in CoinDesk. From the entry issuer
  • The debt is fictional, the families’ lawyers said in Thursday’s filing, and “a centerpiece of Jones’s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry centerpiece
  • The IPC reminds all athletes in their Registered Testing Pool to remain vigilant when it comes to filing and updating their whereabouts.2021 June 11, “Nigerian athlete Roland Ezuruike receives 18-month ban for whereabouts rule violation”, in Press Releases, International…. From the entry whereabouts
  • In one throwaway visual gag, the towering filing cabinet behind his desk is shown to have no drawers at all, but several concealed mirrors instead.2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC. From the entry throwaway
  • In its filing, HMH blamed the recession and subsequent decline in school funding for what it acknowledged has been a “substantial decline” in revenue.2012 May 21, “The Shrinking of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt”, in Publishers Weekly. From the entry HMH

Meaning of filing

  1. noun Any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.
  2. noun The act of storing documents in an archive; archiving.
  3. noun Something that has been officially filed; a document on file.

Full definition of filing

Questions about filing in a sentence

How do you use filing in a sentence?
Filing is used as a noun. For example: “The process left metal filings all over the bench and the part.”
What is a short sentence with filing?
“The company ended up filing for bankruptcy.”
What does filing mean?
Filing means any particle that has been removed by a file or similar implement; a shaving.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: filing (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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