blanket

Example Sentences

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Even if the harms are as devastating as some argue, it doesn’t necessarily follow that blanket bans will effectively mitigate these harms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Still, poppies — California’s state flower — blanket swaths of the protected land.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

"But our observations suggest it is surrounded by a relatively thick blanket of gas, upending conventional wisdom about ultra-short-period planets."

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

He added, however, that there was no "blanket arrangement" for all Indian ships to pass through the narrow waterway, a vital oil shipping channel.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

On one very cold night—it must have been thirty or thirty-five below—I awakened in the morning with dogs all around me and three of them curled up on top of me; a living blanket.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen