security blanket

Example Sentences

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When I was very small, I had, as many children do, a security blanket known as “Blankie.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

That uniformity is a security blanket for Joy Yip, a 47-year-old real-estate agent who recently visited a Costco near Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

While premiums have gone up in recent years, and coverage maxes out at $250,000, the program still constitutes a security blanket on Florida’s Gulf Coast, where coverage rates are high.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2024

Perhaps it would have turned out differently if Mahomes had Kelce, his All-Pro tight end and sure-handed security blanket, who missed the game after hyperextending his knee in practice two days earlier.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 8, 2023

Only then, under the bright fluorescents, did he let the lighter go out, clutching it like a security blanket.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny