How to Use blanket in a Sentence
- It's going to get cold tonight so you may need extra blankets.
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Workers wrapped the owl in a blanket and took it to City Wildlife.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
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Bring your blanket or low camp chair to enjoy the show.
—Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2024
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When it’s not attached to the cabana, the wall can be used as a blanket to sprawl out on.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2023
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This is not some paper plates and some hot dogs on a blanket.
—Sarah Murphy, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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Groups of friends and families claimed their spots on the lawn with blankets, chairs, food and pets in tow.
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2024
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Shows run from 5 to 8 p.m. Don’t forget your blankets and chairs.
—Chelsea Hylton, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
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So you’re curled up on the couch with your fuzziest blanket and your fluffiest dog.
—Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
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The reason Youngkin might resort to a blanket veto lies in the way the budget is structured.
—Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2024
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Orders of $449 or more will also get a free throw blanket.
—Sara Coughlin, SELF, 25 Nov. 2023
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Abdul covered him in blankets and sleeping bags and piled on a layer of garbage bags to hold in the heat.
—Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
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Now their clothes and blankets were drenched, and Eric was shaking and starting to slur his words.
—Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
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Use of the room, which includes a futon and blanket, is limited to 20-minute slots.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 20 June 2023
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The man was then covered by a blanket and escorted out of the store, according to AL.com.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 5 Jan. 2024
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Bring out your own kite with the family to try your hand at flying, or roll out a blanket and stare up at the show above.
—Clilly, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
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The blanket hoodie is designed to be unisex, so it can be worn by anyone, and comes it in one size.
—Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
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As a function of its thinness, this comforter felt more like a light blanket.
—Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2024
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Get your hot cocoa, warm blankets, cozy socks and cue up your favorite movies.
—Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2023
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The remains were wrapped in a blanket that was inside a basket in a box, according to FOX 25.
—Brie Stimson, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
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Shop the blanket in other vibrant hues and sizes below.
—Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 20 June 2023
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If lobster rolls are your summer must, this blanket is a can't miss for wrapping up in to watch the fireworks.
—Lindsay Silberman, townandcountrymag.com, 17 May 2023
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Some lay on cardboard, covered by Mylar blankets, while others slept on the ground in just the clothes on their backs.
—Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 11 May 2023
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The young husband and wife had held each other in the jungle, sleeping without even a blanket.
—Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
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If your hydrangea is on the verge of blooming, cover it with a blanket or tarp until the cold snap passes.
—Patricia S York, Southern Living, 18 Mar. 2024
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Keep scrolling for more soft and cozy blankets from Barefoot Dreams to keep warm this winter like Chrissy Teigen.
—Jennifer Chan, Peoplemag, 7 Jan. 2024
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Do note that bulkier options, while doubling as blankets on the road, are not the easiest to pack.
—Nneya Richards, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2023
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No more lying on the cold, hard floor or struggling to get comfortable on an old blanket.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2023
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The objective should not be to smother markets with blanket subsidies.
—John W.h. Denton Ao, Fortune, 6 June 2026
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All told, the blanket fort included hundreds of sheets draped over tent poles and anchored by ropes, pipes, and even binder clips.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 June 2026
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She was wrapped in a blanket in her favorite chair.
—Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
- Ice was blanketing the bay.
- The fields were blanketed with flowers.
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No wonder the super-rich don’t tend to stop and smell the roses: The sky is blanketed in smog.
—Jane Thier, Fortune, 3 May 2023
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Dowdell carried him out into the yard, but by then smoke was pouring from the home and blanketed the area all the way to the street.
—Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 16 Mar. 2023
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The small animal was blanketed by the darkness and hidden in the leaves — but not well enough.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024
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Clouds increase a bit overnight and their blanketing effect takes an edge off the chill.
—Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
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The brothers knew March was the best time to search out the deer antler sheds before they were blanketed by tall spring grasses.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 25 Mar. 2024
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Extreme weather is blanketing much of the United States as the weekend comes to a close.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
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The substance blanketed cars and homes throughout the city’s downtown.
—Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2023
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Or hike and mountain bike through the area’s dreamy valleys blanketed in soft green grass.
—Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
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This would be just one of many pits dug as snow continued to blanket the valley.
—WIRED, 29 July 2023
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There's still plenty to do during the deep partial eclipse that will blanket much of the continent that day.
—Daniel Johnson, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024
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As the moon blankets the sun and casts a dark shadow over the Earth, scientific breakthroughs can come to light.
—Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Mar. 2024
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High tides and storms sometimes blanket sections of the route with shifting, powder-soft sand.
—Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
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Parts of the region, in fact, were blanketed in double the normal snowpack.
—Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
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Three of the worst fire seasons in the province have come in the last five years, and summer skies blanketed by a toxic haze of smoke are routine.
—Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
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The Seine’s banks are also blanketed with pop-up tables, as are rooftops with panoramic views.
—Liz Alderman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
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The sun came out briefly Sunday in greater L.A., where residents emerged to marvel at mountains to the north and east blanketed in white.
—CBS News, 27 Feb. 2023
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Earlier this month, smoke from the wildfires blanketed the U.S. East Coast for days.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 30 June 2023
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Swift was then snapped with Mahomes in a box seat taking a video of the field, which was blanketed by snow flurries on the cold December night.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2023
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Known as sargassum, the brown seaweed has the ability to blanket beaches as far as the eye can see, and the influx could persist for months.
—Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 1 May 2023
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Three and a half years ago, smoke from one of the worst wildfire seasons on record blanketed 80 percent of the population.
—Bloomberg News, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
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Today, warehouses blanket 20 billion square feet of the country, up about 20% from a decade ago.
—Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 6 Aug. 2023
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The eruption throughout the day blocked out the sun and blanketed several villages with falling ash.
—Slamet Riyadi, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
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The discovery of nine log boats — dugout canoes as long as 28 feet — buried in the muck hinted at the vast wetlands that once blanketed the region.
—Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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The white garment blanketing her round shoulders plunges into a vee in the middle of her chest.
—Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
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Simply bring your baby's play mat or blanket outdoors, remain quiet, and allow your child to observe sights, sounds, and smells.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 4 June 2026
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This world is dark and still, and the seafloor is blanketed with valuable polymetallic nodules.
—Harry Stevens, New York Times, 3 June 2026
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The canyons are layered with color; evergreen junipers and chartreuse shrubs blanket the ground.
—Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 1 June 2026
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Video showed the walls of the complex blanketed with ash and the roof collapsed amid the remains of the structure.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 28 May 2026
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