blanketing
Example Sentences
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Earlier this week, officials in New York and New Jersey issued an air quality health alert because of haze blanketing the city, caused by wildfires in Canada.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Over the next week, the fire continued to burn through dense insulation foam within the building’s walls and other unknown industrial materials, blanketing much of L.A. in acrid smoke.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
Residents have posted videos on social media showing soot blanketing the city and complaining about the effects on the environment and their lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Long before America had a cluster of 31 GPS satellites blanketing the globe, the Defense Department needed a way to guarantee ballistic missiles could find their targets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Hundreds of Clovis sites are now known, blanketing all 48 of the lower U.S. states south into Mexico.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
