How to Use fill in the blanks in a Sentence

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• The goal is to get a range; your design team should be able to fill in the blanks.
  — Laura Fenton, House Beautiful, 1 Dec. 2022
• So the committee used the hearing to fill in the blanks.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 21 July 2022
• In terms of what was being said by you and Tom, that was up to you to fill in the blanks?
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
• Users have six attempts to fill in the blanks of a five-letter word.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
• A lot of people try very hard to compensate, to fill in the blanks.
  — Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 13 Dec. 2022
• The creative part is finding new ways to fill in the blanks, like playing Mad Libs.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2022
• This may all take a few years longer, but in the meantime connections on AA can fill in the blanks.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Given his long career in pro wrestling, the creative team on the show gave Punk the chance to fill in the blanks on the character to a degree.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• In the almost-light of moonglow, imagination will fill in the blanks.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• That was the key for me to understanding Ziggy and Bowie: projection and fill in the blanks.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• Buses have long been used to fill in the blanks between passenger trains.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• So in addition to everything else, the audience is going to have to fill in the blanks of age.
  — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022
• The third dimension is darkness, a time when imagination takes over, allowing the mind and the heart to fill in the blanks.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• Buy a set of forms or go online, download the documents, fill in the blanks and sign as indicated.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
• Russell keeps them short and simple, with the assumption that readers have basic culinary skills to fill in the blanks.
  — Riche Holmes Grant, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Jan. 2023
• Pine and Newton work valiantly to fill in the blanks, though the gray-flannel template of the dialogue often pushes back.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• It's best played in pairs — as one person holds the book with the story prompts, ask another person for nouns, verbs, or adjectives to fill in the blanks.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 22 Feb. 2023
• Liman wanted to fill in the blanks, and dig into what the FBI had reportedly ignored.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
• How Akram spent his short time in Texas before the standoff is not yet fully known, but the information about his visits to the mosque are helping fill in the blanks.
  — Travis Caldwell and Amir Vera, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
• Occasionally the scripts skip over salient details from the scandal, expecting viewers to fill in the blanks.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
• While the film has moments of humor and tenderness, there’s a palpable tension that leads to a somewhat ambiguous ending in which Wells leaves it up to the viewer to fill in the blanks.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023
• With or without direction, employees and managers will fill in the blanks and answer their questions with stories.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
• If some of the markers were blocked or missing during a shot, Masquerade’s AI could automatically fill in the blanks.
  — Alyse Stanley, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• Tone indicators are paralinguistic signifiers used at the ends of statements to help readers fill in the blanks.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• Today, prediction is mostly done through machine learning algorithms that use statistics to fill in the blanks of the unknown.
  — Carissa Véliz, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• In a study published in February, scientists found that when satellite and other data are used to fill in the blanks for the Arctic — where glaciers and sea ice have been shrinking rapidly — a stronger global warming trend emerges.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• But fill in the blanks with the real, live Republican presidential possibilities and the incumbent still has a shot.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 26 Jan. 2022
• That’s probably true even of Waltz’ protagonist and his nemesis, Dafoe’s Joe, but both actors have such a surfeit of presence and expressiveness that viewers can fill in the blanks for themselves.
  — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2022
• So, for anyone who's looking to dive fully into Mr. Raimi's work, or anyone who's simply just looking to rewatch and fill in the blanks, here's a complete ranking of every Sam Raimi feature film.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 25 May 2022
• For example, in a spreadsheet that has a column for personalized messages to customers, the AI could automatically fill in the blanks for every customer with one prompt.
  — Danielle Abril, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024