Sentence examples for setting a blanket from inspiring English sources

He believes that setting a blanket state pension age of, for example, 75 "wouldn't work properly.

Perhaps more common than a business owner setting a blanket policy is something like this Dunkin' Donuts incident, when an employee of a chain restaurant tells cops to leave.

So the smuggler set a blanket on fire to attract attention.

Less than a mile from the journey's end, he reportedly set a blanket afire.

Last year the organization sought to diffuse potential legal problems related to glyphosate and other pesticides in honey by asking EPA to set a blanket tolerance that would cover inadvertent contamination of honey by pesticides.

Once the trap is set, place a blanket over the cage.

Dry Bridge Flea Market Anyone can set up a blanket at this market, so the pickings are hit or miss.

Set up a blanket on the beach, take a range of boards and you won't want to leave until sunset.

But the Bloomberg administration has tried to set up a blanket policy: Rather than delegate power each time he leaves New York, Mr. Bloomberg signed an executive order stipulating that his first deputy mayor, Patricia E. Harris, was in charge whenever he was away.

It's friendly, egalitarian and, best of all, completely free for anyone to set down a blanket and watch an eclectic selection of music and dance performances.

If you really want prime seating right by the waterfront (directly in front of Cafe Orleans, by where people board boats to Tom Sawyer Island), your safest bet is to set out a blanket a few hours before the show and rotate who gets to sit and hold the spot.