wet blanket
Example Sentences
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In contradicting Archie’s combustible ignorance with facts and understanding, Meathead was often the wet blanket spoiling Archie’s good time in the tight Queens palace that the Bunkers and Stivics shared.
From Salon • Dec. 21, 2025
The title character, named Cassandra Webb and played by Dakota Johnson, is a wet blanket possessing few social skills and negligible personal warmth.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024
Huddled together under a wet blanket, Tree and Birdie didn’t know the house was on fire until the basement filled with smoke.
From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2022
As much as I like the tall-grass perfume of Picoso’s tortillas, I find that their thickness can, on occasion, serve as a wet blanket, smothering fillings that the kitchen has so meticulously prepared.
From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2022
Sweat beaded on my forehead as that pressure from earlier in the day smothered me like a wet blanket.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
