Synonym: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, cover, encompassing, extensive, mantle, panoptic, wide. Similar words: blank, banker, monkey, blast, blade, black, black out, tank. Meaning: ['blæŋkɪt] n. 1. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed 2. anything that covers 3. a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor. v. 1. cover as if with a blanket 2. form a blanket-like cover (over). adj. broad in scope or content.
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121. A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper, which immediately took on the status of security blanket.
122. Dementia is a blanket term for various types of psychiatric disorder.
123. Most have long since gone, leaving behind their legacy of sunless, blanket afforestation.
124. The idea behind this imposition of blanket bans was to prevent the temptation to discriminate against particular marches.
125. Food and beverages will be available, and lawn chairs or a blanket are recommended for comfortable viewing.
126. She'd be tucked beneath the blanket and the heavy coat and watching Gloria put on her make-up before she went out.
127. Behind the familiar trestle table with its grey army blanket, sat the commanding officer flanked by two others of lesser rank.
128. His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.
129. Janir was exhausted and fell asleep under a blanket in back.
130. But there was no large wet blanket to be had.
131. Janir turned under his blanket, his eyelids dark and still, his long lashes lying on his cheek.
132. Joseph was shrouded beneath a grey, black-striped blanket, and rested his rifle across his saddle pommel.
133. John Gittings investigates Lost and found A small bundle in a blanket is whisked through the orphanage gates.
134. The boy came in through the back carrying Russell's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench.
135. We spent countless hours lying on a blanket spread in the sun on the fragrant grass.
136. The day following the incident on the stairs, Mitford was enclosed by a thick blanket of fog and rain.
137. They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river.
138. The blanket slipped from his shoulders, disclosing the white T-shirt, its front stained soaked - with blood.
139. Dear heaven, Laura thought, trotting after him with her string bag and her blanket.
140. The fog sat like a heavy grey wool blanket about twenty metres thick.
141. Not a blanket, a pillow, a piece of cutlery or crockery remained.
142. He dropped the bag over and then climbed with the blanket and the torch.
143. There was no one in the apartment to turn on the electric blanket.
144. There was a soldier behind a desk which was really only a trestle table with a grey blanket on it.
145. He walked over and pulled the blanket off the body.
146. Compromising,(www.Sentencedict.com) Theda found a piece of old blanket to place on the coverlet so that his hairs might not spread everywhere.
147. They placed the baskets in a convenient hollow by a large pine and covered them with the blanket.
148. When insulating the loft floor, bring the ends of the blanket up against the sides of the cistern to give continuity.
149. I spent the night under a bridge, using a crumpled blanket as a bed.
150. Nor was there any blanket of morality cast over the characters' actions: they just do what they do.