How to Use fill the gaps in a Sentence

fill the gaps

idiom
  • And that’s where readers have come in to fill the gaps.
    Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Credit cards fill the gaps, putting food on the table and gas in the tank.
    Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 6 Mar. 2021
  • There are signs that China is seeking to fill the gaps.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The pandemic put new emphasis on the need to fill the gaps.
    Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This can help fill the gaps between your skin cells — and lock in moisture while your skin is still damp.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Fintechs and digital upstarts emerged to fill the gaps but lacked a true balance sheet.
    Michael Abbott, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But as work continued, researchers began to fill the gaps.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Maui is in desperate need of help and the foundation has stepped in to fill the gaps and find the people that aid isn’t getting to quickly enough.
    Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Aug. 2023
  • And new staff are often thrown into the job without adequate training just to fill the gaps.
    Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • France is betting that immigrant labor may help fill the gaps.
    Liz Alderman, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Just last month alone, 50 officers left the department, with only eight to 10 recruits ready to fill the gaps.
    Emma Colton, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2022
  • The United States is boosting its own production of artillery shells sixfold to fill the gaps.
    Boryana Dzhambazova, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • An excellent thermal paste will fill the gaps between your CPU and its cooler and reduce the heat build-up.
    Toby Grey, BGR, 15 Sep. 2022
  • If teams have fewer than 13 players available, teams must sign a 10-day hardship player or players to fill the gaps.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Despite this, there are still several key players that could fill the gaps on defense as eight starters returned to the roster.
    Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Amber Bonner, a school board member in Alpine, also has been working as a substitute to help fill the gaps.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Begin by placing a small pillar vessel inside a larger vase, and fill the gaps between the two with red and white marbles.
    Erynn Hassinger, Country Living, 29 Nov. 2022
  • When a movie is running at 24 frames per second, for example, but the refresh rate is higher, the TV may insert extra frames to fill the gaps.
    Simon Hill, WIRED, 14 July 2023
  • School Board President Bob Peterson said the district has been exploring ways to fill the gaps.
    Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Teachers have always done this to fill the gaps students have who may have moved from outside our school system, or even within our school system.
    Julie Hotopp, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
  • Nonprofits fill the gaps when government support waxes and wanes and when the public's attention turns to the next shiny-object cause.
    Stacy Sullivan, The Arizona Republic, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Then there are one-off deals at several brands to fill the gaps in your summer travel packing lists, from bras and swimwear at Cuup to summer denim at Warp + Weft.
    Halie Lesavage, harpersbazaar.com, 25 May 2023
  • All-American, also arrives as a transfer from Texas Tech to help fill the gaps left behind from the backcourt departures.
    Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 6 July 2021
  • The project helped Markosian understand Svetlana’s perspective and fill the gaps in her childhood memories.
    Diana Markosian, Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Unsatisfied with answers from the media and government, people look elsewhere for answers, and some step in to fill the gaps.
    WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
  • The reason has to do with the liquid electrolytes that fill the gaps between the lithium cobalt oxide and graphite layers (remember them?) and stop the two components from touching.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • All the while, Savarese and his staff desperately attempted to fill the gaps by tweaking formations and adjusting the style of their attack.
    oregonlive, 19 Nov. 2021
  • As a result, a large portion of the labor pool is shuffling around, and employers are scrambling to fill the gaps that departing workers leave behind.
    Steven Kramer, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Initially, Groff worked every day but Sunday in exchange for agreeing to cover other workers’ shifts to fill the gaps.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Major labels have relied heavily on the Canadian market to fill the gaps.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2022

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'fill the gaps.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: