blanketing

Example Sentences

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Residents have posted videos on social media showing soot blanketing the city and complaining about the effects on the environment and their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Not if the Dodgers can come to trust him at the plate like they now feel secure with him blanketing the outfield.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

Snow fell in parts of Tehran on Tuesday night, blanketing the Iranian capital with a layer of white after air strikes on oil depots caused days of dark skies and black rain.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 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

All day the blanketing fog hung over Ravensbruck, an eerie day when sound was muffled and the sun never rose.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom