blanket

Example Sentences

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They wrapped a thick blanket around him, carried him through some doorways, down some halls, through some more doorways, and down some more halls.

From Literature

Few people gathered at the memorial Sunday morning, but real and fake flowers, blanketed by snow, covered the site.

From Los Angeles Times

This setup, the report said, would allow launching sites to be “relatively invulnerable” to enemy warheads, requiring a “massive blanket Soviet thermonuclear attack” to destroy Iceworm launchers.

From Los Angeles Times

"This seasonal ice cover behaves like a natural blanket for the lake," said Kirsten Siebach, an associate professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences and co-author of the study.

From Science Daily

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