blanketing
Example Sentences
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It also comes after smoke from raging wildfires in Canada drifted into the U.S., blanketing cities including New York, Chicago and Washington.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Earlier this week, officials in New York and New Jersey issued an air quality health alert because of haze blanketing the city, caused by wildfires in Canada.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
The Palisades and Eaton fires burned more than 40,000 acres and destroyed at least 12,000 buildings, blanketing the ocean in ash for up to 100 miles offshore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
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 ● Feb. 19, 2026
The smog blanketing Tehran was transformed into dense orange clouds by the lights of the city below, and then we were flying through it and I couldn’t see anything else.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
