Example sentences for: blanket

How can you use “blanket” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • to give the United States blanket overflight and landing rights for all necessary military and intelligence operations;

  • The Washington Times could hardly contain its excitement: "A former FBI agent assigned to the White House describes in a new book how President Clinton slips past his Secret Service detail in the dead of night, hides under a blanket in the back of a dark-colored sedan, and trysts with a woman, possibly a celebrity, at the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington."

  • Since you like your children but do not wish to see the image you describe, by all means articulate your discomfort and suggest they throw a blanket over the "art" when you come to call, or temporarily substitute a nice still life.

  • He would instead substitute a blanket rule decreeing that all searches that are not "unreasonable"--an issue to be decided on an ad hoc basis by juries--satisfy the Fourth Amendment standard.

  • Doctors and nurses are lumped together with gophers and pen-pushers under the blanket term health professional . No one over owns up to being the boss, the leader, or the headmistress, only the coordinator . Words that have a richness of meaning are strenuously avoided in favor of cold, empty terms that have no resonance.


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