How to Use blanket in a Sentence

blanket

1 of 2 noun
  • It's going to get cold tonight so you may need extra blankets.
  • The blanket ban on the flag is new.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 19 May 2026
  • The man asked the pair for a blanket.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Bring your own chairs and blanket.
    — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Still, there are no blanket rules.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 May 2026
  • Put a blanket in the grass and stare up at the sky.
    — Parents, 11 June 2026
  • There are even a few homemade blankets in the mix.
    — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Nov. 2025
  • She was wrapped in a blanket in her favorite chair.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Many spent weeks with just a blanket and no showers.
    — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Grab your coffee and pull a blanket across your lap.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Snap up the blanket in eight sizes, such as throw, full, twin, and king.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • This travel blanket will keep you toasty on a cold plane.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Bring a blanket or low-back lawn chair for seating.
    — Holly Andres, Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • Bring a low-back lawn chair or blanket for seating.
    — Holly Andres, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Bring a low-back lawn chair or blanket for seating.
    — Holly Andres, Daily News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Bring a low-back lawn chair or blanket for seating.
    — Holly Andres, Daily News, 25 June 2026
  • This warm layer acts like a lid on a pot or a heavy blanket.
    — Ahmad Bajjey, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This is not some paper plates and some hot dogs on a blanket.
    — Sarah Murphy, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Use electric blankets or space heaters to keep warm.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The fact that this blanket keeps me just right speaks volumes.
    — Jamie Fischer, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Take the time to inspect the blanket’s plug, too.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Using the best sauna blankets at home.
    — Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Keep knits like sweaters and blankets in good shape with a cold water wash.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The blanket of stars has arrived.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 19 June 2026
  • One $500 blanket draped across the couch can do that.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 29 May 2026
  • They were wrapped in blankets and had bags over their heads, per the complaint.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 28 Oct. 2025
  • This is the Goldilocks of blankets—not too big, not too small, just right.
    — Jamie Fischer, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Bring low chairs, picnic and blankets.
    — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Khayo said the boy was restrained and locked in the room with no food and no blankets.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 26 Aug. 2025
  • It was supposed to look like some sort of Rothko blanket.
    — Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025

blanket

2 of 2 verb
  • Ice was blanketing the bay.
  • The fields were blanketed with flowers.
  • Drape a frost cover, sheet, or blanket over plants.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
  • But Hoosiers are no stranger to blizzards that blanket the state.
    — Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 28 Jan. 2026
  • More snow is set to blanket parts of the country this weekend.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC news, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Beneath their trunks, the yard was blanketed with snow.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The ideal way to eat veggies is blanketed in cream and cheese.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 5 Mar. 2026
  • This would be just one of many pits dug as snow continued to blanket the valley.
    — WIRED, 29 July 2023
  • The storm blanketed the state and brought up to six inches of snow to some areas.
    — Christine Sloan, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Neighbors said their back alley is still blanketed by snow and ice.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Each dessert is blanketed with cream cheese frosting and comes with a baby on the side.
    — Sonia Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Let the spectacle blanket the rough edges of your daily grind.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • In the years when algal blooms blanket the coast, those jobs and figures vanish.
    — Michael Adno, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Clouds increase a bit overnight and their blanketing effect takes an edge off the chill.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But Richter was sure that more would join once the water blanketed the field.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Or hike and mountain bike through the area’s dreamy valleys blanketed in soft green grass.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Brown leaves, thick between the trees but mashed into the mud on the trail, blanketed the earth.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The forest floor was soft, blanketed with moss, pine needles, and clover.
    — Elizabeth Flock, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Jones quietly helped blanket receivers on the back-end.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Those warnings blanketed about three-quarters of the country at the peak of the heat wave.
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Residents and crews worked to clear streets and sidewalks as the storm blanketed towns across the state.
    — Aaron Flaum, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Because Franklin was again blanketed over the middle of the field.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
  • High tides and storms sometimes blanket sections of the route with shifting, powder-soft sand.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Not helping matters is a snowstorm that blankets the seaside town.
    — Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025
  • More than a foot of fluffy, perfect snow blanketed the trails and the tree branches hung down like a ski-through canopy of snow.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The fork-tender caveman-size shank is blanketed in sautéed endive and a bright lemon-egg-dill sauce.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
  • You'll be rewarded each year when they are blanketed with flowers.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
  • The white garment blanketing her round shoulders plunges into a vee in the middle of her chest.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Boston remains blanketed in heaps of snow now more than a week and a half removed from a major snow storm.
    — Mike Sullivan, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The small animal was blanketed by the darkness and hidden in the leaves — but not well enough.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2024

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