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.
He was given only a wooden pallet with a blanket.
(He pointed at the bundle she held, while she nodded proudly, beaming on me with good-nature and consciousness of success and prosperity.) "This overcoat is as good as a blanket," he went on, advancing the skirt of it that I might feel its thickness. THE SPIKE
Haze Blankets Singapore Vivek Prakash/Reuters A combination photo showed Singapore's financial district on a clear day on Sept. 11, top, and shrouded in haze on Thursday, bottom. Indonesia Seeks to Stem Haze
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
She settled the blanket around her knees.
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
While I kept back the dogs, Uncle Denis, kneeling down, pulled out the quills, and then throwing my blanket over the animal, he secured it as we had done the urson. With Axe and Rifle
Ben left the blankets on the back of the sofa while he followed Hoss upstairs to gather his own warm clothes from his bedroom.
He blew on the small cuts for a moment, then burrowed back underneath the blankets to resume his interrupted sleep.
His head was hidden under a blue blanket, but deep sighs were audible. Times, Sunday Times
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
And was there frostwork about and thick weather and hice, soon calid, soon frozen, cold on warm but moistly dry, and a boatshaped blanket of bruma air-sighs and hellstohns and flammballs and vodashouts and every — thing to please everybody? — Finnegans Wake
The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
The patient kneels on the spread (B) prepared for her; this consists of a sheep-skin (S) covered with a cotton blanket (C) and a zarape (Z). Labor Among Primitive Peoples
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
The blanket medicalisation of society, however, should be approached with caution. Times, Sunday Times
This looks like a blanket or comforter - fuzzy and warm.
Garrisons suggest a more entrenched military encampment, using tents rather than blankets.
It's hard to be "tarred" with a neutral or complimentary label the sole purpose of which is to assign blanket characteristic behavior patterns to the recipient. Gringos and Euros and Canucks, oh boy
Cover with a thick layer of seaweed, and a piece of old canvas, blanket, carpet, or dry leaves, to keep in the steam.
He unfurled the blanket insulation over the concertina wire and scrambled over the fence as a Doberman streaked toward him, snarling. THE KILL CLAUSE
He tried to push them off, but they had him pinned under the blanket.
There are solar blankets kind of furled up in there. CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007
He told it, stringing it out while the three spread their blankets and collected a pile of firewood for the night. A Plague of Angels
She lay tangled in her blanket, one arm hiding her face.
He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
They insist she puts a blanket over her knees to damp down the chief rabbi's blood pressure.
Maclaren Techno Four Seasons Pushchair Description 1 buggy, 4 seasons, 8 looks: The four seasons buggy is suitable from birth and comes complete with 3 reversible seat liners for spring, summer and autumn, a footmuff for winter, boot, a reversible blanket, raincover and storage bag to coordinate with all 4 seasons. WN.com - Articles related to Trinoma welcomes summer
One mammoth cloud lay half-way across the sky, a big fleecy blanket, dragging its train. DANSVILLE
Kevlar also was used on the Galileo probe to Jupiter, which included a parachute made of Kevlar, and at the International Space Station, where a blanket made of Kevlar was used to wrap its inner walls to protect from micrometeorites.
I imagine that an acupuncture session is fairly relaxing for the pet - the article indicates that the animal isthe center of attention during these exercises – they are petted, nuzzled, spoken to in calming adult-cooing baby language, placed on warm blankets with candle light and soft music, perhaps? Pet Acupunture – Grrrrr! Ruff! « Biodork
Even boys - traditionally reluctant readers - were devouring it under the blankets.
A blanket ban on western reporters makes the getting of hard information almost impossibly difficult.
With picnic blankets, hampers and candles in safety cups, the visitors began taking up their positions on the grassy knoll.
At evening viewings, comfortable cushions and blankets are placed on the lounge chairs.
This is the kind of blankety coat I want to wrap myself in on misty mornings. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The heavy cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
We're also doing blanket food distributions and that's within the first emergency phase.
We should have had the St John Ambulance brigade giving us tea and thermal blankets.
I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
They were good blankets, of most marvellous thickness and warmth, and her pride in them was greatened in that they had been come by so cheaply. THE MASTER OF MYSTERY
At 12: 50 PM, hester said ... did you really stay for the whole thing?? quite impressive! btw, our performance of zimmermann's Erde-Wasser-Luft-Töne was prepared with heavy non-stick masking tape and blankets. drury's performance of it in jordan hall used steel putty. glad you enjoyed the iditarod! On the Trail
He shook the blankets vigorously to get rid of the dust.
Scrapbooks crammed with yellowed reviews overflow on to sheets the color of daffodils, a salmon satin blanket cover.
As she perched on the blanket and started to unlace her boots, she remembered what the constable had said and leapt to her feet. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
There were little blankets designed to wrap the baby like a papoose, but I worried that I would wrap the child too tight and suffocate her. Staceyann Chin: Surviving Halloween, Bedrest, and The Baby Registry
A blinding coat of white blanketed the thick shrubbery that defined my garden.
Staff at a beauty salon used a fire extinguisher and fire blanket to put out the flames and called an ambulance. Times, Sunday Times
The reception was encased in bulletproof glass, the blankets were riddled with holes and the remote control was moist. Times, Sunday Times
He was laying under an army blanket, on a rickety cot, right arm bandaged, and the other pillowing his head.
Some of these low-lying areas, with waterlogged deposits blanketed by alluvium, have provided good evidence for Roman farming.
Every ounce saved was important and they didn't even take blankets or greatcoats and they slept as best they could in rough bamboo shelters with only a groundsheet to keep out the mountain cold.
So we pack a picnic and a blanket in a small rucksack and head off into the hills.
In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same - a blanket of wet cow manure.
He was surprised upon learning that he merely had to untuck the bedcovers to get under the blanket.
Cine Blitz International publisher Rajesh Mehra attacked the blanket ban.
My first step will be to remove the insect killer tubelight setup on each floor, and issue a blanket ban on all insect repellants.
Alan sings with shy intensity, hiding behind the security blanket of his guitar.
The bill gives sensitive police files a blanket exemption.
They placed the baskets in a convenient hollow by a large pine and covered them with the blanket.
Yes, the basketweave blanket is beautifully drapey. ahem. Dolly Wants to Play...
They all laid out their bedrolls and blankets in a corner.
He could only stand and watch as all three Genos were blanketed in heavy gun fire.
So as often as I sincerely wish to throw a blanket over my teenage daughter before she goes out, I know I can't do this (although I can cluck, like a churchwoman, "Aren't you going to be cold in that, dear?"). Danielle Crittenden: Islamic Like Me: Is Western Culture More Sexually Oppressive Than The Burka?
The beds are made up with proper sheets and blankets instead of duvets. Times, Sunday Times
The ban is a blanket ban covering all marches or all marches of a particular class such as political marches.
There was blanket coverage of the royal divorce.
This blanket dismissal of evolution ignores important distinctionsthat divide the field into at least two broad areas: microevolution andmacroevolution.
They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
They already had been instructed to avoid Simpson coverage, but Fujisaki expanded his order to a blanket ban on all news.
Try changing feather pillows, woollen blankets and woollen clothing to cotton or synthetic materials.
The only distinguishing feature was a silver doorknob, blanketed with a thick layer of dust.
Fancier edge stitches could include binding with lycra, blanket stitch, pinking, overcast with the serger, or turning under and stitching.
They cuddled up under the blanket.
They thought he was a middle aged wet blanket.
My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
Aidan woke, blinking up into the gray of predawn, confusion at his whereabouts making him question the heavy oaken beams above his head, the draft from a rattling set of windows, and the dampness in the smelly blankets covering him. Earl of Durkness
Then his father draws back the blankets to reveal two shattered legs, the bones held in place by external fixators. Times, Sunday Times
A wind dead aft, blanketing more than half the canvas, is called a lubber's wind. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
Scoop unwanted blanket weed out of garden ponds. Times, Sunday Times
The suffocating security blanket extends well beyond the convention center.
Pillow and blanket, in size befitting that missing infant, made that black perambulator all the more confounding.
The Great London Smog blanketed the capital and brought it to a standstill in December 1952.
The scratchy blankets were tucked around her, and Robert was spooned behind her against the wall.
Forget that Culkin is blond and blue eyed, and that Blanket is dark and possibly Latino.
Those troops act as a big security blanket for Seoul and Tokyo, and the last thing China wants is for either of those countries to be untethered from the U.S. security embrace.
The spinach, arugula, tatsoi and mache all appeared like green sentinels standing up to Old Man Winter's blanket of white snow.
There was blanket coverage of the royal divorce.
Make a den with a blanket over the furniture. The Sun
The children made a bivouac at the bottom of the garden with some poles and an old blanket.
I heard her filling the stove with wood as I shook with cold beneath the mound of blankets.
For added insurance, you can put the compost on top of a blanket of horticultural fleece. Times, Sunday Times
“If you ask people, many will just tell you ‘go ask that guy — I think he was born when I was’,” explains Sami, who sits on the TV couch huddled against the cold in his patu -- a thick blanketlike shawl that men wrap over their heads and shoulders. Why Afghans Don't Know Their Ages
Most of all, the Colonel was intrigued that the wet blanket had absorbed the energy of the pistol shots.
In a quiet corner there were already a dozen corpses covered by blankets.
It is bursting with full, ripe blackcurrant, thick plum and burned coffee touches too, all wrapped up in a sturdy blanket of prominent tannins.
Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog.
Getting food, medicine and blankets to flood victims is the most urgent priority.
We piled up desks and used old blankets as curtains to provide privacy. Broken Lives
His brother beat out the flames with a blanket.
Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward. HIGH STAND
It's cold I need another blanket.
Nor was there any blanket of morality cast over the characters' actions: they just do what they do.
Our bedrolls were back with the rest of the troops, but we opened up the musette bags we carried, which contained extra socks and underwear, toilet kits, a blanket and half a canvas pup tent.
Kaffir blankets haunted the refuse-heaps, and fought with gaunt dogs for picked bones and empty meat-tins, and were found dead not unseldom, after full meals of strange and dreadful things. The Dop Doctor
I knew a few casts would be needed to get the baits in clear areas as a lot of dead blanket weed was on the bottom.
Paramedics turned up at the house and found her body in the lounge partially covered by a blanket.
All these controls can be turned off, but they do form a comforting security blanket.
Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News 'Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace. Eric Boehlert: Unhinged in 30 Days: The Right-Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion
Ms. de Guitaut says that the third rose-cut diamond on the howdah blanket moves sideways to reveal the keyhole where it is wound up. A Palace's Small Treasures
Dear heaven, Laura thought, trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket.
But the WEA leadership, uncomfortable with political comment, preferred a blanket adherence to official neutralism, exacerbating strained relations with their energetic editor, William Emrys Williams.
If we're lucky, we may have someone in the family who makes the perfect cover-ups for the test of us: the wedding quilt for the newlyweds, the blanket for the new baby's layette.
They try to smother the flames with a damp blanket.
The walls were coated with cobwebs and blanketed with old tapestries.
The blankets were very thin and the sheets very thick. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
She grabbed the top of the blanket I was hiding under and ripped it away.
There is no general blanket rule, but being safe and taking those precautions are the most important things.
Comfort measures are initiated intraoperatively, including use of a temperature-regulating blanket and IV fluid warmer and padding all bony prominences.
It was some sort of gel blanket to put under the saddle. Times, Sunday Times
I always keep a blanket and a toolkit in the trunk for emergencies.
They also warn against soft bedding, blankets, pillows and soft toys. The Sun
Flipping the blanket aside, he swiveled around and stood up, mother-naked. A CALL TO DARKNESS
As for force fields, we can also set up a grid that would throw a blanket over the entire building above- and belowground. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
This fleshy digit is his security blanket, his best friend and sole consolation in an overly-critical world.
Your mainsail changes color if you are being blanketed or backwinded by a competitor.
Inherent in this promise is a kind of security blanket; the union chief is replaced with a mutual fund manager.
Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket.
I jumped up from my bed (which was just a mattress with a fitted sheet and blanket on the floor) and grabbed the phone from off my desk.
We stacked up the blankets and jumpers but it was still freezing. Times, Sunday Times
His blanket, I found, was swarming, and it was ours, not his, one of a lot taken on at Rouen as "disinfected"! Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915
Between 30 and 40 million years ago, eruptions from a cluster of stratovolcanoes blanketed the area with ash beds and volcanic mud flows, reaching a maximum thickness of 3,000 feet.
We cuddled up together under the blanket.
Pennsylvania and territories thereof; viz. 20 guns, 20 fathoms matchcoat, 20 fathoms stroud-water, 20 blankets, 20 kettles, 20 lbs. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
The kitchen now has a smoke blanket, the study has a pinboard, clock and smoke alarm, and the window handle in the bathroom is no longer falling out of the frame.
While Hannah was using a blanket to swat out flames on the ladder below the top of the cupola — waving away helpful servitors and even a voynix that had come in close to protect the humans from harm — Harman and two others had finished poking inside the fiery furnace and had just opened a “taphole,” allowing what looked to be yellow lava to flow down wooden troughs to the beach. Ilium
It is a consolation, a socially acceptable comfort blanket.
Two million years ago it was buried under a creeping blanket of ice.
But is it realistic to impose a blanket ban? Times, Sunday Times
Wen yu splortz frum kyutenes sumbuddy bringz CCC* tu yu asistunce nd replaisez yur hed cubburz titely. nd gibz a restoratib drink , floofy blanket nd chonklit. Da horn on da bus goes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
It was a warm night, so he didn't need his cloak or Sprout's odorous saddle blanket. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
So we will sit immobile for that last hour of incoming international flights, unentertained, unblanketed, and untoileted, and that will do the trick. Harry Shearer: Airport Security: Everything but Accountability
My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge.
I realize I can't take him in for his interview quite yet, so I call and reschedule for later in the afternoon while I try to think of some way to cheer up this stick-in-the-mud of a wet blanket. Greeting Cards From the World's Grumpiest Poet
A collection is being organised for the victims of the Pakistani Earthquake and the requirements are blankets, duvets, sleeping bags and tents.
He pulled her onto his lap and wrapped the blanket round her shoulders.
Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter.
She immediately sat down, unpacked her sleeping pallet and blankets and fell asleep.
They brought deckchairs, blankets and picnics, making this occasion every bit as special as the spectacular opera concerts held in London's parks and at Castle Howard.
They require a mosaic of heath, blanket bog and wetland, with rough grazing, shrubs and trees for cover.
When I saw the flames I acted on instinct and threw a blanket over them.
Frothy geysers and hissing fumaroles vent into icy air, huge herds of elk and bison gather in low basins for food and warmth, the forest glitters with ice, and a blanket of snow brings a rare silence.
This was done using blanket filtration over the whole area, not localized enhancement. The Times Literary Supplement
Wild flowers such as dainty purple gentians blanket the meadows. Times, Sunday Times
Fabric is woven in relatively narrow widths and long lengths, cut and assembled side-to-side for garments, blankets and other textile uses.
Were this blanket ban to continue, it would certainly mean bankruptcy for some airlines. Times, Sunday Times
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Cots and blankets have been sent into the Senate in preparation for an all-night debate.
The traditional smoky Irish pub was officially consigned to the past today as a blanket ban on smoking in the workplace came into force.
She had a blanket draped across her knees.
Woodburners will only throw out heat so far and no further, so the Hudson's Bay blanket has been my best friend and I have mastered the three-way fold cocoon-like enwrapment which has all kept me warm enough to sink into the oblivion of a good book. Dovegreyreader scribbles
They are compiling a list of skating no-go areas around the parish - and a blanket ban on skateboarding in unsociable hours is also being put forward.
Like the Himalaya, alpine elevations support shrubbier vegetation on northern exposures because these hold a protective blanket of winter snow. Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
The girl was so worn and weary that she curled up beneath the blanket and closed her eyes at once.
You can also purchase a blanket policy to cover all employees and officers. Christianity Today
The church provides blankets and clothing for homeless children.
The quiet settled in like a warm blanket, no birds sang, no crickets chirped.
He saw the corner of a magazine sticking out from under the blanket.
Double tier wooden bunks have been placed in the various rooms, with a palliasse and two blankets per man. Work Camp 10049 GW
Mark gently removed the hand from his waist and sat up, draping the blanket onto Claire.
This cuddly baby doll comes with her own blanket and bottle.
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help. Maya Angelou
Leo opened the door to his room, saw a nightlight revealing a little tousled head peering above blankets. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Upon reaching the ski area, the whole village was blanketed in pure white snow.
Now, if most of you are like me, you know the heat isn't getting turned on until the windows are frosted over, so there's gonna be a lot of tip-toeing around, wool gear and heavy blankets, seen?
A high wind is dragging a blanket of dust across the flat openness of these fields.
A multicolored blanket had covered the back seat. Canada.com
Seven faithful worthies trudged up the steps of the underground shelter, lugging the corpses of Mr. and Mrs. Hitler in Wehrmacht blankets. The Nazis' Last Stand
I'll go and find you some clean sheets and blankets.
He said that organisations have approached security in the past by providing blanket coverage. Computing
UNRWA reported that yesterday (3 Feb 2009) Hamas armed assailants took at gunpoint 3500 blankets and 406 food parcels from the UNRWA distribution center at the beach refugee camp (Shati). The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
He was issued with a thin mat and a threadbare blanket and taken to the cell block.
It was the kind of warmth like pulling blankets out of the dryer and wrapping them around you in the middle of winter.
The reality is there are investors and creditors out there that have relied on 'too big to fail' to make investment decisions, " Ms. Bair said. "We have to take this security blanket away.
A blanket assault on our institutions and motives can paralyze the nation's capacity to govern itself.
They didn't tell you about the whole smallpox in the blankets and forced march to internment and despoilation of the forests part of that new arrangement, did they? The Sacred Domain
With his hunting-knife he slashed the straps from his pack, unrolled his blanket, and got out dry socks and footgear. First Version of To Build A Fire
Again, the Court noted that the injunctions did not constitute a blanket prohibition.

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