Examples of wet blanket in a Sentence

I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket.

Recent Examples on the Web Frank Mariani, my business partner and personal wet blanket. — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022 The rising prices have been a wet blanket on an otherwise robust economy over the last year, as unemployment has fallen below 4% and the workforce has grown. — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022 While San Francisco has been facing $6-7 gasoline, mega-investors in nearby Silicon Valley just threw a wet blanket on the electric car industry. — Jude Clemente, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022 Rain showers danced across Southern California on Monday , throwing a wet blanket on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2022 And look, Covid is a big, wet blanket thrown over the attitudes of Americans. — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2022 New research from Morning Consult throws a wet blanket on a strong rebound for business travel. — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021 While ObamaCare’s taxes harmed the economy, the wet blanket of his regulatory burden smothered the recovery, long before the 2013 tax increases. — Phil Gramm And Mike Solon, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021 As a lockout throws a wet blanket over the offseason, every team hopes to hit the ground running when the stadium gates swing open. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021 See More

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