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.
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His delivery wins crowds, but his jokes are not very thoughtful: hawking stereotypes about immigrant parents being wet blankets.
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Police in Georgia have charged a mother and two individuals with murder after a 3-month-old baby died from allegedly being wrapped in a wet blanket and placed in front of an air conditioner.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2024
Thus a wet blanket should be tossed over the Lakers’ engineering of the most celebrated 55th overall pick in NBA draft history.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
The effect this had on Drake’s diss was like throwing a wet blanket on a raging fire.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
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J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
Police in Georgia have charged a mother and two individuals with murder after a 3-month-old baby died from allegedly being wrapped in a wet blanket and placed in front of an air conditioner.
—Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 Aug. 2024
Thus a wet blanket should be tossed over the Lakers’ engineering of the most celebrated 55th overall pick in NBA draft history.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
The effect this had on Drake’s diss was like throwing a wet blanket on a raging fire.
—Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
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“Wet blanket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wet%20blanket. Accessed 15 Sep. 2024.
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