blanket

Example Sentences

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The European Central Bank’s Christine Lagarde has urged governments to avoid blanket policies that could strain finances and stoke demand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 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

At seven o'clock on a Monday morning, a village paperboy is busily doing his rounds, his high-vis vest and yellow bag standing out against a grey blanket of fog.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

One of them assigned to our platform had no blanket at all and Betsie insisted that we give her one of ours.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom