blanketed

past tense of blanket

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of blanketed In Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol, tarpaulin tents have blanketed the square for weeks to protest rising housing costs, sparked by the eviction of María del Carmen Abascal, an 87-year-old woman who later died while hospitalized. — Teresa Medrano, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 In Madrid’s central Puerta del Sol, tarpaulin tents have blanketed the square for weeks t o protest rising housing costs, sparked by the eviction of Maricarmen, an 87-year-old woman who later died while hospitalized. — Teresa Medrano, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026 Such visibly striking launches are far from guaranteed; Vandenberg and its scenic surroundings are often blanketed by fog, making rocket watching in the area a dicey proposition. — Mike Wall, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blanketed
Verb
  • Warhol’s Portrait of Michael Chow (1984) shows the restaurateur across two panels coated in the artist’s trademark diamond dust.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • It’s made from durable cast iron, and the interior is coated in enamel that erases the need for extra seasoning, according to the brand.
    — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Identities are concealed and participants often act as a group, sometimes attacking symbols of capitalism such as luxury stores.
    — Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Iran also concealed information about its past nuclear weapons activities and subsequently violated the agreement's nuclear restrictions.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The emergency declaration ended Wednesday night after the fire was extinguished.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Chicago extinguished New England's last-minute comeback bid courtesy of exceptional clock management by coach Johnson and a nail-in-the-coffin, career-best 58-yard field goal from Cairo Santos.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Keep your fruit bowl covered and balcony doors closed—or risk bartering half a banana for your MacBook.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Their experiments covered micro-LED diameters ranging from 100 micrometers down to just 2 micrometers.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The Barnes & Noble—a wide, flat building in gray brick—was obscured by an enormous construction crane.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • What resonated most for me, though, was witnessing conversations where depth of understanding unveiled perspectives previously obscured.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The workers organized a strike, but their efforts were brutally suppressed.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • For 15 years multiple rounds of quantitative easing kept yields suppressed below 3% and often even close to zero, returns which are hardly competitive with stocks.
    — Justin Zacks, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026

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“Blanketed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blanketed. Accessed 1 Nov. 2026.

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