filled in; filling in; fills in
1
: to enrich (something, such as a design) with detail
2
: to give necessary or recently acquired information to
I'll fill you in
: to fill a vacancy usually temporarily
interns filled in for regular staffers
Examples of fill-in in a Sentence
Noun
I'm just a fill-in, so I have no idea where office supplies are kept
Verb
my friend quickly filled me in on the portion of the movie that I had missed
she's only filling in while the regular secretary is on vacation
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Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Cameron has started four games with the Royals, initially as an injury fill-in for Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
Matthew Bradford, a district administrator who was filling in as chief information officer at the time, told Zeman the district’s previous technology contracts had expired.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
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Noun
After 24 games there and two fill-in games at AA Chesapeake, he was reassigned to the organization’s Florida Complex League team, which plays in Sarasota.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025
Cameron has started four games with the Royals, initially as an injury fill-in for Seth Lugo and Cole Ragans.
—Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
Verb
These various simulations helped fill in some gaps that a simple one-time experiment could not.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 June 2025
Matthew Bradford, a district administrator who was filling in as chief information officer at the time, told Zeman the district’s previous technology contracts had expired.
—Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2025
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“Fill-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fill-in. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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