filled with vs filled by

Both 'filled with' and 'filled by' are correct phrases, but they are used in different contexts. 'Filled with' is used to describe the contents that fill something, while 'filled by' is used to indicate the agent or cause of the filling.

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filled with

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to describe the contents that fill something.

Use 'filled with' when you want to describe what is inside something that is full or overflowing.

Examples:

The jar was filled with candies.
The room was filled with laughter.
Her heart was filled with joy.
The basket was filled with fruits.
The cup was filled with water.

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Space is filled with orbiting children.
It's filled with unused pharmaceuticals, mostly oxycontin.
The Talmud recognizes Life is filled with contradiction.
Her mouth filled with blood and it was terrifying.
Our days are filled with excitement.
Personal ads are filled with desperation.
CBI building is filled with people.
Yesterday my life Was filled with pain...
The workplace is filled with inappropriate characters.
Wish my head was filled with guacamole.
Miami is filled with colorful and relaxing outdoor activities.
A life filled with exotic pleasures is nothing...
This attorney had submitted a 75-page document filled with false statements.
This store is filled with bobble-rich accessories.
The basement is filled with ghosts.
And the bag is filled with letters, not rice.
The laptop is filled with encrypted files.
My calendar was filled with parties to plan.
Our lives are filled with dreck.
His eyes, because they were filled with this... immense... satisfaction.

Alternatives:

full of
brimming with
packed with
loaded with
overflowing with

filled by

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English to indicate the agent or cause of the filling.

Use 'filled by' when you want to specify who or what is responsible for filling something.

Examples:

The cake was filled by the baker with cream.
The position was filled by a qualified candidate.
The room was filled by the sound of music.
The pool was filled by the rain.
The jar was filled by the child with marbles.

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With the balance filled by specialist niche players.
1-10) was filled by a passage borrowed from the Syriac Hexaplar.
This prescription was filled by your wife nearly a month ago.
The cavity is filled by a number of solvent molecules.
All the spots are filled by... serious theater students.
This industry is extremely unregulated, and largely filled by local Mozambican women.
When there is a shortage, it is always filled by someone.
The place was then filled by rain water tanks (aljibes) abandoned.
Past experiences have seen political vacuums filled by Hamas and Hezbollah.
Various professions such as medical personnel may be filled by foreign workers in 2015.
The hole has been filled by the stuff!
A total media blackout is a void just asking to be filled by fertile imaginations.
Under the Weimar Republic, only 1% of university posts were filled by women.
Approximately two-thirds of Monaco's 30,000 jobs are filled by workers from neighbouring French and Italian towns.
The proportion of space filled by the spheres is called the density of the arrangement.
Potholes can only be filled by authorized government workers.
Supporting roles were filled by Australian actors.
Their congressional seats are then filled by special elections.
Their ranks were filled by arrivals from new transports.
I expect that this will be filled by next time we meet.

Alternatives:

filled with the help of
filled through
filled using
filled as a result of
filled due to

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