Sentence examples for blanket of fire from inspiring English sources

For several days, Ethiopian fighter jets and helicopter gunships have been laying down a blanket of fire over the area, and attacks continued on Tuesday.

Alice appears and saves Carlos and the others from a fiery death, using her psionic powers to cover the sky with a blanket of fire, killing the crows.

The bed was made, the blankets smoothed, no trace of fire in here, although there was more soot along the far wall.

Seth Mydans (NYT) MALAYSIA: SMOG HITS CAPITAL -- A blanket of smog from forest fires in neighboring Indonesia has returned to the capital, Kuala Lumpur.

Changes include "slightly stronger" steel, and an insulating blanket that can help slow the spread of fire from one car to the next, he says.

If you don't have any type of fire extinguisher or fire blanket around, then you can use water; however, ONLY use water if you have 100% turned the power to the source OFF.

I guess it would be melodramatic to try and cost that in, and it might also draw unfortunate attention to how monumentally damaging it is to a population when the government takes their painstakingly woven blanket of universal healthcare and sets fire to it.

UNICEF and partners have been responding to the outbreaks of fire with immediate provision of blankets, tarpaulins, cooking utensils and other emergency shelter and household items.

And a blanket of yellow, pollenlike dust, discharged from fire extinguishers in parting punctuation.

Streams and rivers flow through the stories: the Cuyahoga on fire, "a calico blanket of shimmering flames elbowing its way into the heart of Cleveland"; the Hudson "ruffled with long flails of chop"; the Kalamazoo functioning as a blasphemous miracle, so polluted "you could've walked across it if you'd had the will to do so".

From a hilltop overlooking the exchange of fire, Israelis could be seen bundling babies in blankets and hustling their children into cars.