Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use refill in a sentence

34 example sentences · noun, verb

Refill means an additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost. Example: “Today it is $2 for a coffee, with free refills throughout the day.”

Examples of refill by meaning

nounAn additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.

  • Today it is $2 for a coffee, with free refills throughout the day.
  • "Oh, gosh," he groaned, "and I'd have given anything for a refill of that suet!1951, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings Follows a Clue
  • Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across the country, is offering endless free noodle refills for a fortnight from election day on Sunday until 24 July, the Mainichi Shimbun said, provided they could show proof that they had voted.2022 July 6, Justin McCurry, “Free noodles offered as Japan wrestles with low youth turnout for elections”, in The Guardian

nounRefuelling, fuel to refill an empty fuel tank (of a vehicle or machine) or other fuel container.

  • Tank's empty. We need to go for a refill.

nounA product intended to replace the used contents of a container or the exhausted supply of a device.

  • We're cutting back. No new printers or pens, just refills.

nounAn act or process of refilling.

  • After refill, start engine and observe installed fittings and valve to make certain there are no leaks.1990, United States. Department of the Army, Department of the Army technical manual, volumes Organizational and Direct Support Maintenance...
  • Of course, the most efficient, money-saving option of all is straightforward refill.2010 October 11, “Is sugar the new plastic?”, in The Guardian
  • During refill, the drop generator acts like a simple fluid mechanical oscillator2018, Ross R. Allen, Gary Dispoto, Eric Hanson, John D, Meyer, Nathan Moroney, “Inkjet”, in Mitchell Rosen, Noboru Ohta, editor, Color...

verbTo fill up once again.

  • Can you refill my cup please? I've finished my coffee.

More sentences with refill

  • She refilled the jar with peanuts today evening.From the entry jar
  • Water was provided in throwaway plastic bottles, but the more ecologically minded of us refilled our initial bottles from the fountain.From the entry throwaway
  • Clean the chicks' waterer each time you refill it.From the entry waterer
  • She asked the server to refill her water glass.From the entry water glass
  • The printer's anti-features made it hardly worth using: the small $40 ink cartridges get blacklisted after first use to prevent refilling.From the entry anti-feature
  • The waiter refills their coffee cups with warm café con leches.2019, Kay Sellers, Outlier, Xlibris, →ISBN. From the entry café con leche
  • Grammy stood behind the counter refilling the glass display case with cookies.2016 March, Syndi Powell, “Prologue”, in The Sweetheart Deal: A Clean Romance, Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN. From the entry megs
  • Then she reseated at the table after refilling Kenner's cup as she gator-smiled.2015, J.E. Corbine, Treasure Territory. From the entry reseat
  • He tossed off half of the drink and I gave him a refill.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 81. From the entry yous
  • When finished with the first helping, a refill or two was automatically provided, no questions asked.2009, Robert van Voren, On Dissidents and Madness: From the Soviet Union of Leonid Brezhnev to the “Soviet Union” of Vladimir Putin…. From the entry bliny
  • Assessment of venous refilling time (T₀)(analog recording by light reflexion rheograph).2005 February, Markus Stücker et al., “Changes in venous refilling time from childhood to adulthood in subjects with apparently normal…. From the entry reflexion
  • A resupply gives you the chance to refill your fuel bottle as well as your food bag.2003, Buck Tilton, Trekker's Handbook: Strategies to Enhance Your Journey. From the entry resupply
  • 'I love yoooo,' she woozed in English, as Sergei, with a static grin, refilled my glass.2000, Marc Llewellyn, Riders to the Midnight Sun: From the Black Sea to the Russian Arctic. From the entry wooze
  • He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 18. From the entry fine
  • Drinking fountain, but no bottle refill station.2024 January 17, “Jefferson City Indoor Fun!”, in Macaroni KID Jefferson City. From the entry diaper changer
  • I heat up yesterday's leftover coffee and refill my hydroflask.2018, Lindsey Stanberry, Money Diaries: Everything You've Ever Wanted To Know About Your Finances... And Everyone Else's, unnumbered page. From the entry hydroflask
  • A Juul is an e-cigarette that looks like a USB thumb drive and uses a "pod" system for refills.2018 December 20, “How a way to quit smoking morphed into a teen vaping epidemic”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2021. From the entry Juul
  • But she went to her car and came back with a purple pharmacist's refill bottle of promethazine-codeine cough syrup.2011, Ryan Winfield, South of Bixby Bridge, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry Texas tea
  • The state-owned mining companies cut dangerously steep angles into the ground without refilling, a practice that has put Fushun’s future at risk, he said.2015 October 6, Yifu Dong, “Coal, Which Built a Chinese City, Now Threatens to Bury It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry Fushun
  • The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.2011, Catherine Coulter, Split Second, unnumbered page. From the entry cha-ching
  • “Daaaahlings I say, please refill my glass and peel me a grape.” She grinned and mugged it up for us gathered proletariat.2011, Michael R. Häack, Passport: A Novel of Adventure and Intrigue, →ISBN, page 414. From the entry peel me a grape
  • Material received by the BSF for ingest into storage, and the items being picked and refilled, are all processed in an ancillary hall next to the high-density storage area.2013, Michael Heaney, Catriona Jeanne Cannon, Transforming the Bodleian, page 78. From the entry ingest
  • Their money comes from a modest business that involves collecting, refilling and reselling inkjet cartridges and it's successful enough to afford a semi-decent four-bed in a semi-decent LA suburb.2013, Sam Christer, The Camelot Code, →ISBN. From the entry semi-decent
  • Many gappists have used the word “replenish” in the KJV translation of Genesis 1:28 to justify the gap theory on the basis that this word means “refill.”2006, Ken Ham, “What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?”, in Ken Ham, Bodie Hodge, editors, The New Answers, Book 1: Over 25…. From the entry gappist
  • Rancher: “Kids don’t realize.” “My kids say, ‘Don’t talk about the dark ages.’ I say to them, ‘You may be seein’ more of ’em!’” Talking, refills author’s coffee.1996, Madison Morrison, Realization, page 139. From the entry restaurateuse

Meaning of refill

  1. noun An additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.
  2. noun Refuelling, fuel to refill an empty fuel tank (of a vehicle or machine) or other fuel container.
  3. noun A product intended to replace the used contents of a container or the exhausted supply of a device.

Full definition of refill

Questions about refill in a sentence

How do you use refill in a sentence?
Refill is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Today it is $2 for a coffee, with free refills throughout the day.”
What is a short sentence with refill?
“Drinking fountain, but no bottle refill station.”
What does refill mean?
Refill means an additional helping of food or drink at reduced cost.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: refill (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.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use refill in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/refill. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.