Sentence examples similar to blanket lands from inspiring English sources

As recently as 1963, plagues of ravenous desert locusts could stretch across continents, blanketing lands from West Africa to India up to 14 years at a time.

Hunched behind the wheel of his new Saturn ("I don't drive no Mercedes-Benz," he protests later), Mr. Pastore takes a sure-fire short cut that according to his sidekick, Charlie Sammarco -- along as a security blanket -- lands them north when they want to go south and costs them 20 minutes in motionless Ninth Avenue traffic.

The state blankets the land like fog on the moors.

The things she buys come wrapped in plastics & papers that promise to blanket the land in a welter of ash & trash.

I was very spooked indeed when a mission had me playing as the sun slowly set, and I had to race to get inside before darkness blanket the land and zombies went into full berserk mode.

A white powder blankets the land and it's so romantic.

Bond rallies held by movie stars such as Lucille Ball and James Cagney blanketed the land.

White Charolais cows dot the hillsides and the safflower was in bloom while we were there, blanketing the land in patches of brilliant yellow.

But they say the company, which blanketed the land with its "blue-light specials," will have to take on a new form.

For over four hours, the deadly aim of Confederate cannons and troops blanketed the land with dead or wounded Union soldiers, but in the early afternoon the Yankee's superior numbers finally overran the Confederates positioned in what has been known ever since as the Bloody Lane.

Unfortunately, current farm bill proposals would continue to disproportionately favor huge operators who have blanketed the land with monocultures.