fills in

Example Sentences

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"While Sepa do their own regular monitoring of rivers, this fills in the gaps and allows everyone to react quickly if something is going wrong."

From BBC • May 26, 2026

The Journal’s article fills in some of the blanks.

From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026

They’re just assuming that the narrative fills in for the supporting evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026

O’Farrell fills in the many missing pieces: the love, the anguish, the drive to turn real-life tragedy into art.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

And you don’t notice that words have changed on another part of the page because your mind fills in a picture of things you’re not looking at at that moment.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon