coverlet

Example Sentences

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Something about that coverlet must have felt important to her about her character.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

Flip this compact plain wood carrier for food, drinks and utensils and it becomes a low table for serving or eating poolside, on a beach blanket or on a coverlet in the grass.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2021

Not too cold, an ideal coverlet of snow over the city, plenty of eats … a conspicuous number of khaki clad boys returning to the family circle.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2020

When not moonstruck, the darkness itself is the draw, a coverlet silencing the day’s concerns, yet granting permission for thoughts to drift forever out into space – while remembering to yell “Car up!”

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2019

Billy took off his tri-focals and his coat and his necktie and his shoes, and he closed the Venetian blinds and then the drapes, and he lay down on the outside of the coverlet.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut