BLANKETS in a Sentence

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For BLANKETS, below is one of 139 sentences:
The newcomer went to the bunks and inspected the blankets; he lifted up the mattress, and then dropped it with an exclamation.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLANKETS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blanket
 n.  heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, used in bed clothing
Classic Sentence: (115 in 8 pages)
1  It was what Jotham called a sour morning for work, and the horses, shivering and stamping under their wet blankets, seemed to like it as little as the men.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
2  He carried her up the stairs to her bedroom and while the alarmed household fled hither and yon for hot bricks, blankets and whisky, he propped her on the pillows of her bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
3  After all, the Yankees have plenty to eat and enough medicines and blankets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  Well, Miss Scarlett, it wasn't long before the war was over and--well, there was a lot of china and cots and mattresses and blankets and nobody claiming them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  She "went through" the linen and blankets in the precise spirit of the penitent exploring the inner folds of conscience; she sought for moths as the stricken soul seeks for lurking infirmities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  Along the decks she saw missionaries, gamblers in tall pot hats, and Dakota chiefs with scarlet blankets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Then in the morning we'll lie snug in our blankets and look up through the pines at an eagle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  He flipped into bed with a solemn back-somersault and a ludicrous kick of his heels as he tucked his legs under the blankets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  The port would fain give succor; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that's kind to our mortalities.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
10  The groom took her up in his arms and carried her out to his sledge and tucked her under the blankets.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
11  I piled straw and buffalo robes into the box, and took two hot bricks wrapped in old blankets.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
12  The chest is full of clean blankets, put away for winter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
13  It was eleven o'clock when I at last took my bag and some blankets and started for the barn with the boys.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  The newcomer went to the bunks and inspected the blankets; he lifted up the mattress, and then dropped it with an exclamation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  He could make out dimly in one corner a pallet of rags and old blankets, spread upon the floor; at the foot of it was a crucifix, and near it a priest muttering a prayer.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  Clothes and blankets have been distributed among the refugees.
2  The baby peered out of its cocoon of blankets.
3  Getting food, medicine and blankets to flood victims is the most urgent priority.
4  President Garcia has ordered an airlift of food, medicines and blankets.
5  The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp.
6  Woolen blankets often have fluff on them.
7  The organization distributed food and blankets to the earthquake victims.
8  Doctors cocoon ed the patient in blankets.
9  The children's heads poke from under the blankets.
10  They found a small recess in the one nearest the base of the rock, with a pallet of blankets spread down in it; also an old suspender, some bacon rind, and the well-gnawed bones of two or three fowls.
11  I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; I took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot.
12  The organisation of the protesters has been impeccable: all over Gezi Park every inch of space is still covered by tents, blankets, tables laden with food, maps and information posts.
13  Bangladeshi television stations broadcast images of rural polling stations charred by arson attacks, and of bodies wrapped in red blankets.
14  It's cold I need another blanket.
15  The town was covered in a thick blanket of fog.