How do you use the word "full" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "full": Why is life so full of suffering? The world is full of fools.

Full Meaning

/fʊl/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjContaining the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.

adjComplete; with nothing omitted.

Sentence Examples

Why is life so full of suffering?

The world is full of fools.

We have a very full agenda of issues to discuss.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

heavy whole fully

Antonyms:

empty thin fractional

CEFR Practice Quiz

After eating the large pizza, his stomach was completely ____ and uncomfortable.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The auditorium was ____ of people who had come to hear the famous author speak about her new book.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish full. Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word." — 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:

"Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale." — 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:

"'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there." — 1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82:

"Reading maketh a full man." — 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

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