How to Use fullness in a Sentence

fullness

noun
  • Apply moose and blow it out with a round brush to give your hair some fullness—some oomph.
    Devin Toth, Redbook, 13 Feb. 2012
  • This adds fullness and draws the eye to the center of your mouth, making your lips look more lush.
    Lauren Valenti, Marie Claire, 15 Apr. 2015
  • Yoon and Kim agree: Ombré lips and hair shading, both ways to fake fullness, are huge in Korea right now.
    Alexandra Tunell, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Jan. 2016
  • Question for the group: Can a luxury hairbrush do more for the natural health, shine, and fullness of your strands than any product could in the long run.
    Chelsea Avila, Allure, 19 Oct. 2024
  • To identify the greatest sports dynasties in the world across the fullness of history, statistics only take you so far.
    Sam Walker, WSJ, 12 May 2017
  • And submental fullness, the clinical term for what is commonly known as a double chin, can pose a problem even for people who are slender and fit.
    Fiorella Valdesolo, Town & Country, 24 Aug. 2015
  • There is an abundance of gorgeous outdoor scenes, many set in Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne is shown at work amid the fullness of nature.
    Stephen Holden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Yet despite the lush romanticism and sonic fullness of Lost to the Street, there’s something oddly slight about it.
    Adam Sobsey, SPIN, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Project Apollo seems to me, even at this remove—and surely in the fullness of time—what mattered most about John F. Kennedy’s life.
    Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • The AirBag is chock-full of sensors and chips that detect the fullness of your bag and communicate that status to all your connected devices.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2016
  • The Sopranos paid homage with Agent Cooper–esque fugue states and shots of trees blowing in the wind, rippling in their fullness and strangeness.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
  • Sure, people can say whatever, but the real Marsha — the fullness of her — is readily available to understand and calibrate to.
    Wren Sanders, Them, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Energy, fullness, musicality — these are all qualities the company is known for.
    Marina Harss, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2016
  • The balance was perfect between the crisp skin, thicker than usual for Korean fried chicken; the firm flesh that seemed to grip the palate with its fullness; and the garlic wafting up into my nostrils.
    Wesley Yang, Bon Appetit, 9 May 2017
  • Otherwise, drinking a glass of water 30 minutes before a meal can deliver a similar feeling of fullness without costing you any calories.
    Elizabeth Narins, Cosmopolitan, 23 Aug. 2016
  • The 2016 Marzipan debutante, Alston Macgill, danced with a fullness that goes beyond sugariness.
    Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
  • Thus, the ozone layer may not return to its former fullness until the late 21st century, but quick international action did stabilize the problem.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2010
  • The full moon — which will reach the crest of its fullness at 9:08 p.m.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 21 June 2024
  • In the fullness of time, the threat to Fremont turned out to be a bluff.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In the fullness of time, my dog died of old age, and his did too.
    Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 1 June 2022
  • And the fullness of the kick drum expresses the fullness, the all-in-ness, of the artist.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • This sense of fullness and balance is one of the film’s strengths.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
  • The studio just doesn’t quite capture the fullness of what’s in the room.
    Deborah Evans Price, Billboard, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The others rejoice in the length and fullness of their lives.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2021
  • A feeling of fullness in the ear There's no cure for MD.
    Isadora Baum, Health, 11 Sep. 2023
  • She’s been a survivor who knows the marrow and fullness of the word.
    Rita Omokha, ELLE, 14 July 2023
  • This drug acts on the brain to produce the feeling of fullness.
    Michael Lee Simpson, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The fullness of his vision makes this brand re-boot one to watch.
    Vogue, 30 June 2021
  • The passage of time is measured in the fullness of ashtrays.
    Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This will create fullness at the crown—a telltale sign of a pro job.
    Rebecca Dolgin, Redbook, 2 Oct. 2017

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