blanket
Example Sentences
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Against that expansive vocabulary doomscroll, the concept of comfort acts as a blanket covering everything, concealing life’s unpleasantness from sight and offering us a place to hide.
From Salon
They saw him take a cot out on the platform and some blankets and, by Jehoshaphat, he slept there all night, getting up to add his secret potion every few hours.
From Literature
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When I heard that O’Hara had died last week, I nestled under my favorite couch blanket and hit play on “Schitt’s Creek.”
From Los Angeles Times
Cabrera said he did not support a “blanket” moratorium and instead wanted the city to consider projects on a case-by-case basis.
From Los Angeles Times
The economic costs of last month’s massive winter storm Fern, which blanketed half the country in snow and knocked out power to more than a million people, could be historic.
From Barron's
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