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
• 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
• 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
• Buses have long been used to fill in the blanks between passenger trains.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• 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
• In the almost-light of moonglow, imagination will fill in the blanks.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• With or without direction, employees and managers will fill in the blanks and answer their questions with stories.
  — Esther Choy, Forbes, 30 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
• 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
• Tone indicators are paralinguistic signifiers used at the ends of statements to help readers fill in the blanks.
  — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2020
• Liman wanted to fill in the blanks, and dig into what the FBI had reportedly ignored.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• If conscientiousness can’t be grown organically, external talent may help fill in the blanks.
  — Alex Dunham, Quartz, 12 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Like the Impressionist paintings of Monet, pixel art asks the player to fill in the blanks with their own experiences, forming a unique personal relationship with the creator.
  — Aidan Moher, Wired, 4 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
• In the absence of any living Neandertals to interrogate, a combination of clues from gene analysis and the archaeological record must fill in the blanks of this enduring mystery.
  — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 10 May 2021