Word info

fill in the blanks

Speech parts

1. fill in the blanks - Noun

2. fill in the blanks - Verb

Meaning

fill in the blanks

plural of fill in the blank

fill in the blanks (third-person singular simple present fills in the blanks, present participle filling in the blanks, simple past and past participle filled in the blanks)

Alternative form of fill in the blank in situations where there is more than one blank.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. Tobe Hooper

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author. Sharon Kay Penman

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? Amy Adams

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back. Hiro Murai

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks. Viggo Mortensen

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks. Viggo Mortensen

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