blanket

Example Sentences

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Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his village beneath the towering chimneys of a coal‑fired power plant in southern Turkey.

From Barron's

Folded into shepherd’s pie under a blanket of mashed potatoes.

From Salon

Snow cover measures how much of Earth's land surface is blanketed in snow.

From Science Daily

“I was thinking about the beauty of being in a living mix and what that would look like personified,” she said of the wee figures wrapped in colorful tortilla-like blankets.

From Los Angeles Times

Flurries were also expected to blanket Big Bear, where several feet of snow could fall through Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times