(1) A thick blanket of snow coated the earth and the tall pines I was surrounded by were heavily laden with white powder.

(2) Local authorities will not have the right to issue blanket bans on gambling.

(3) What will the impact of a blanket ban be?

(4) The sky was gray, a blanket of clouds hanging in the sky, the beginnings of autumn chill in the barest puff of a breeze.

(5) The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist.

(6) In the 1960s, most countries imposed blanket speed limits.

(7) The corridor is usually full of people puffing away and a thick blanket of smoke hangs in the air.

(8) She now realized why bandits would choose a place like this to hang out, for it quickly got dark inside the forest, under the thick blanket of leaves.

(9) The low temperatures, combined with the thick blanket of dust surrounding the embryonic star, means the process of star creation cannot presently be measured.

(10) The thick blanket of depression stole around her, enticing her into the depths of a silent quagmire with it's sullen truths.

(11) The sky was completely covered by a thick blanket of clouds.

(12) But a blanket ban serves only to prevent the public from knowing what really happened last week.

(13) It was just a general, unspecific blanket condemnation of that sort of thing, you know, to keep up appearances.

(14) With this blanket ban on so many aspects of news coverage, you just don't know who to trust anymore.

(15) Actually, there wasn't much to make, all she had to do was puff the pillow and throw the blanket over the bed.

(16) That should blanket the spinnaker behind the mainsail so that there is very little pressure on it.

(17) They are compiling a list of skating no-go areas around the parish - and a blanket ban on skateboarding in unsociable hours is also being put forward.

(18) Outside, dim diffuse light indicated the presence of dawn, but everything was shrouded in a thick blanket of mist.

(19) My first step will be to remove the insect killer tubelight setup on each floor, and issue a blanket ban on all insect repellants.

(20) They want employers to introduce a blanket ban on internal e-mails and get staff walking around the office.