blanketed

past tense of blanket

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of blanketed The Panhandle is blanketed in watches and warnings for hurricane, tropical storm and storm surge conditions, and 25 counties remain under a state of emergency with less than a day of preparation time remaining. — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Converging tropical storm systems that doused parts of the Front Range and Eastern Plains with rain this week — while largely skipping over metro Denver — blanketed the summit of Pikes Peak with snow Thursday. — Katie Langford, Denver Post, 1 Oct. 2026 The Iraqi capital is blanketed with mechanical cranes building huge apartment complexes, malls and glitzy restaurants – although both the apartments and restaurants are unaffordable for most Iraqis. — Jane Arraf, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026 Chinese media was blanketed with images of Xi's arrival, holding up the red-carpet treatment as further proof of Beijing's vaunted global standing. — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026 Previous Pacific storms, most recently Hurricane Marie, have blanketed the region in unusually warm, humid air more reminiscent of the South. — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 In Lower Manhattan, the collapse of the Twin Towers led to a massive dust cloud that filled the air and blanketed city blocks with ash, debris, metal, glass, asbestos, benzene and other harmful particles, according to the WTC Health program. — ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026 The nation is now blanketed in a patchwork of differing rules as schools struggle to figure out how to regulate generative AI chatbots. — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 The day before, thick smoke blanketed Spain’s third-biggest city. — Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanketed
Verb
  • Researchers then installed the electrodes and coated the structure with sputtered gold.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Increase heat to medium-high; cook, adding more pasta cooking liquid as needed, until pasta is al dente and coated in sauce, 2–3 minutes.
    — Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appetit Magazine, 13 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • That modest national gain concealed sharply different experiences at opposite ends of the age spectrum.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Their deaths had been concealed, and their remains buried on site.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • South Metro Fire Rescue crews extinguished the fire to keep it from spreading to nearby vegetation and homes.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Firefighters on March 28 extinguished a fire and found Mendez’s body in a ditch, according to a record that the Express-News reviewed.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Other suites are even more striking, covered from head to toe in a flora wallpaper and bright, colorful custom furniture.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Construction crews stripped the president's name from the exterior in June, but the front portico of the building has since been covered by a tarp, concealing most of its name.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Both of us gravitated toward the dot cake, vanilla cake and buttercream, entirely obscured by a psychedelic layer of rainbow sprinkles, an online phenomenon neither of us had tried.
    — Tanya Bush, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The same repositioning also obscured the screws that hold the GPU brace’s mounting bracket.
    — Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The flip side of this is that more hectic environments, like a busy cafe, aren’t so easily suppressed.
    — Mark Knapp, PC Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Those odds are still likely suppressed by the notion the Fed will avoid raising rates just before an election.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026

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“Blanketed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blanketed. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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