Sentence examples for blanket against from inspiring English sources

She hugged a blanket against her small belly.

Reflections of lights strung between striped poles dance on the water's surface as you snuggle under a blanket against the night chill.

But whereas this confidence-boosting notion was still genuinely believed a decade ago, today it is a kind of comfort blanket against an unfamiliar world.

I think that mash, pasta and pastry are meant to be the base line, the comforting neutral blanket against which other more sprightly tastes can be set.

"All we have to eat are biscuits and rice balls," said Noboru Uehara, 24, a delivery truck driver who was wrapped in a blanket against the cold at a shelter in Iwake.

Her high-ceilinged office, in the Alexander Hamilton United States Custom House, is a crowded and colorful jumble of indigenous artwork: a Cree Indian goose decoy here, a Brazilian basket there, a Mexican blanket against a wall.

People gathered on lawn chairs, bundled up with blankets against unusually chilly weather.

There are children and adults, some wrapped in blankets against the chill.

Many people who lost homes covered themselves in blankets against the sub-freezing temperatures.

But considering the lackluster efficacy of many gels and sticks, deodorants and antiperspirants may be nothing more than security blankets against the social ostracism some fear.

Outside one polling station in Ulundi, home of Inkatha's leader, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, some women started queuing at 5am, wrapped in blankets against the early chill; they did not reach the polling booth till mid-morning.