blanketing
Example Sentences
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Machado’s team spent months blanketing Washington earlier this year to lobby U.S. officials and lawmakers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Birmingham had its worst May snowstorm for 60 years in 1955, and wintry weather returned to the city on 2 May 1979 with snow blanketing many areas for the bank holiday.
From BBC ● May 9, 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
None of the men spoke at all on the drive back through the heavy, mesmerizing quiet blanketing mountains, sea and forests.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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