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How to pronounce blanket in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cover
Type of bedding, bedclothes, bed clothing
Has types afghan, electric blanket, mackinaw, mackinaw blanket, manta, security blanket
Type Words
Synonyms mantle
Type of natural covering, cover, covering


there was a blanket of snow.
Type Words
Synonyms across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide


blanket sanctions against human-rights violators.
Type Words
Type of layer, bed
Type Words
Type of cover


snow blanketed the fields.
Type Words
Type of cover, spread over

Examples of blanket

blanket
Instead, he sleeps beneath a blanket on a mattress with a built-in pillow shape.
From the sacbee.com
A baby, wrapped in a yellow blanket, lay beside Johnson's teenage granddaughter.
From the denverpost.com
Silence rolls down from the mountaintops along with an eiderdown blanket of fog.
From the latimes.com
Two of these guests appear to have BYO'd a blanket to the House of Holland show.
From the canberratimes.com.au
He had to because Lincecum was throwing a blanket over the Diamondbacks'offense.
From the boston.com
He's the big brother, the security blanket, and this appeals to a lot of people.
From the cnn.com
In fact, much of America puzzles over the EU's blanket ban on the death penalty.
From the independent.co.uk
Cloud scudded past below, occasionally shrouding us in a chilly blanket of mist.
From the telegraph.co.uk
If the blanket is different on the front and the back, place it right-side down.
From the dailymail.co.uk
More examples
  • Cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"
  • Across-the-board: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"
  • Bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"
  • Anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"
  • A layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
  • A blanket is a type of bedding, generally speaking, a large piece of cloth, intended to keep the user warm, especially while sleeping. Blankets are distinguished from sheets by their thickness and purpose; the thickest sheet is still thinner than the lightest blanket. ...
  • Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 u2013 June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the King of Pop, his contributions to music, dance and fashion along with his publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.
  • Blanket is a song by eclectic British hip hop duo Urban Species and British singer/songwriter Imogen Heap. The song was released as a single from the band's second album "Blanket" in 1999. ...
  • (Blankets (graphic novel)) Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood. ...