What is "blanketed"

Usage examples of "blanketed".

With her first coherent thought, finding herself blanketed by tons of stony carbon, Maia realized that there were indeed worse things than acrophobia or seasickness.

The clamor blanketed everything in the bizarre illusion of silence, and he had the impression-when he saw a dozen men in the garments of slaves emerge from the tangled growth of the batture below him-that they did so without a sound.

Molts tele porting to positions readied to meet the attack found that even on the flanking slopes where the warriors were not blanketed by smoke, their gun sights showed featureless shades of gray instead of Oltenian vehicles.

Slipping away into some tepid shoreless sea blanketed by thick blue fog.

There lay the great sky-reaching crags of the Mountains of the Night, blanketed in everlasting clouds, cleft by bottomless chasms, drenched by the endless rains that were slishing into the mire in which he lay, rattling on the forest roof above him.

When dusk had blanketed the area in darkness, tugs helped move the Archerfish away from her protected position at the base.

Each bore an elaborately coifed wig complemented by a fabulous face created from the plethora of jars and pots and tubes and brushes that blanketed the rest of the tabletop.

Dusk was thickening in the valley of the Kootenai when Owen Sack, bent beneath the blanketed pack across his shoulders, tramped over the bridge into Dime.

Gaining the lee of a madrono tree, Lance opened his blanketed arms, enfolded the girl, and felt her for one brief moment tremble and nestle in his bosom like some frightened animal.

Blanketed with snow broken only by the bare up-reaching lines of the woodier scrub, the shape of the space would still please the eye and soothe the mind and heart.

The trees were either bare now, or held the last few leaves, stark skeletons of white among the blue-green shadow of conifers, and the land had gone all brown and yellow, the woods thickly blanketed with leaves that rustled dustily dry.

A dense grove of firlike trees blanketed the hillsides that wrapped around the Stones, sheltering them from the prevailing winds.

She and Gamaliel had quickly descended from the sharp, windswept peak where the standing stone had transported them, moving below the timberline and into the vast, silent stands of fir and pine that blanketed the slopes of the mountain.

The horses at the picket line were blanketed in crimson and black, obviously the colors of some high Demesne around which Gamesmen gathered.

But certain things made it bearable—the sound of the wind crooning in the battlements, the days when vapors blanketed the world far below and he stood on an island in the clouds, the nights when rain pattered on the outer walls, the songs of birds on the morning breeze, the tok-tok-tok of the moss-frog whose call was reputed to improve the flavor of cellared wine, the salt sea-breeze tasting of far-off adventures, the sight of the Greayte Southern Star like a green firework burning low in the night sky, the warm, friendly noses of goats, hounds, and capuchins, glimpses of eotaurs and the mighty Windships that crossed the airs, stories told by the kitchen fire.