fill in the blanks

idiom

1

: to put information into blank spaces : to provide missing information

Please fill in the blanks on the questionnaire.

—sometimes used figuratively

At the end of the movie, the narrator goes back and fills in (all) the blanks.

2

: to provide one's own conclusion

He would not tell me the whole story of the argument, and I was left to fill in the blanks for myself.

Examples of fill in the blanks in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Scenes staged with action figures offer a visual component to fill in the blanks, as do the quick news montages that announce key years. —David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2023

Print out the card and have each kid fill in the blanks, or ask younger kids the questions and record their answers. —Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 May 2023

That will prompt the office to follow up to help each author fill in the blanks in an application. —Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023

With her executive scheduler and an aide standing nearby to fill in the blanks, Levy outlined the stops from a recent Saturday in Tolland, Enfield, Rocky Hill, Prospect, Litchfield and Vernon before returning home to Greenwich. —Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2022

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