Blanket

The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.

The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.

There was no difficulty in sighting the semaphores from this timely warning to each one; but it would have been another matter if the driver had to peer continuously into that white blanket [fog] looking for them without any pre-warning.

A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.

Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach

Disenchanted with socialism, they unleashed free enterprise (or tried to) and backed it up with a more-or-less blanket endorsement of the old ways.

By contrast, any emotional or motivational explanation of autism would seem to predict too blanket a degree of social disinterest.

The second reason offered for blanket nonprosecutions for crimes committed at the megabanks involves the possibility that such prosecutions could harm the economy.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Friday wrote to his counterparts in Delhi, Haryana, Odisha and Rajasthan urging them to reconsider the blanket ban on sale of firecrackers in their respective States.

A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.

[…] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and perſecution of the skie, / […]

I see the moon go off watch and the darkness begin to blanket the river.

The whole world was shut away outside in blood-red glory, as he rocked in his cradle on the immaculate sea, where the warm air blanketted him above the water sheets cold below.

Leaping lightly on his back he led the grateful horse in an easy canter back to the stable where he waited and watched as the stable girl rubbed him down and blanketted him.

The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds. Then snow blanketted the fire. Birds sang in the snow, and I awoke.

In another damaging twist, former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis, who blanketed television networks after President Joe Biden’s victory to falsely claim he was elected because of fraud, reached a plea deal with Georgia prosecutors.

The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.

Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall.