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[ US /ˈbɫæŋkət, ˈbɫæŋkɪt/ ]
[ UK /blˈæŋkɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
  2. anything that covers
    there was a blanket of snow
  3. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
    he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep
VERB
  1. cover as if with a blanket
    snow blanketed the fields
  2. form a blanket-like cover (over)
ADJECTIVE
  1. broad in scope or content
    an invention with broad applications
    granted him wide powers
    an all-embracing definition
    a panoptic study of Soviet nationality
    blanket sanctions against human-rights violators
    across-the-board pay increases

How To Use blanket In A Sentence

  • Behold the mermaid blanket, a fishy update on that hygge groundbreaker, the slanket. Times, Sunday Times
  • Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
  • More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan.
  • I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
  • At this time of year, plants are tucked up for the winter under a thick blanket of winter mulch.
  • The video recordings of the interviews showed the suspect sitting at a desk clutching a blue blanket over his head. Times, Sunday Times
  • I bundled Lucy up in a blanket and made her a cup of tea.
  • The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.
  • The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.
  • She nodded snuggling deeper into the blankets and stealing their warmth.
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