electric blanket

Example Sentences

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During the next outage, you’ll find me with my family, under an electric blanket, sipping piping hot tea.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

Her skin was ice cold, Roberts said, and everyone went to work trying to warm her up, drenching her in warm water, plying her with hot tea, and eventually wrapping her in an electric blanket.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

"Can you thaw a frozen turkey by wrapping it in an electric blanket?"

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022

She has also invested in an electric blanket.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2022

At home I got through the bad episodes by lying on the couch and drinking water brought from my parents, turning the electric blanket on to get warm and sweating it out.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini