How to Use wet blanket in a Sentence

wet blanket

noun

• I'd love to go to the party, but with my cold, I'm afraid I'd just be a wet blanket.
• In the shade of the trees, the air felt like a wet blanket, and mosquitoes homed in on open flesh.
  — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
• With the help of a friend, Stauffer used the wet blanket to cover the animal and a broom to stop it from getting away.
  — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 24 Jan. 2018
• If this is throwing a (very cold and) wet blanket on a party then, well, sorry.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 24 Dec. 2017
• That means a towel that is easy to clean with and wash, one that can take on plenty of moisture and not feel like, well, a wet blanket.
  — Men's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
• And look, Covid is a big, wet blanket thrown over the attitudes of Americans.
  — NBC News, 9 Jan. 2022
• Some might think this seems like party poopers that want to place a wet blanket over some good-natured fun.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• And when any of these tent poles are moved or even angled the other way, their entire sense of comfort folds in on itself like a wet blanket.
  — Nicole Blades, Good Housekeeping, 26 Oct. 2017
• An early winter storm has served as a wet blanket for forest fires that have been burning out of control in the West for most of the summer.
  — John Hopewell, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• As a lockout throws a wet blanket over the offseason, every team hopes to hit the ground running when the stadium gates swing open.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Dec. 2021
• Smoke from several regional fires hung heavy over the area, clamped down like a wet blanket by a high-pressure zone.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
• News of still-hot inflation was a wet blanket for markets, which had been holding out for signs that might nudge the Fed to put a brake on interest rate hikes.
  — Heard Editors, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2023
• However, someone has to be the wet blanket that dampens all this optimism because every team in the rankings at the start won't be there at the end.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
• Mary descends the stairs in her lederhosen like the living embodiment of a Chanel wet blanket.
  — Jodi Walker, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2021
• The 2015 regulations threw a wet blanket on those efforts.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 17 Dec. 2017
• Gregg Hutson’s shady backyard would be a wet blanket for most gardeners.
  — Anne Marie Chaker, WSJ, 11 June 2018
• Friday’s stumble threw a wet blanket on things heading into the weekend as selling picked up toward the close.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• With the internet now a dominant social force, Tenner is ready with his wet blanket.
  — Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 4 June 2018
• New research from Morning Consult throws a wet blanket on a strong rebound for business travel.
  — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• And that can be stressful particularly since parents want their kids to have fun on Halloween while not being a scold or wet blanket.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Oct. 2017
• Scarcely had producers begun to hope for better times when covid-19 threw a sopping wet blanket on their fortunes.
  — The Economist, 5 Mar. 2020
• As a refresher, the outgoing model was as dynamic as a wet blanket.
  — Manuel Carrillo Iii, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2021
• But California tax policy could throw a wet blanket over the party.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
• The news of the salary-cap snag at least temporarily throws a wet blanket over news of the Davis deal, and could eventually suffocate its promise altogether.
  — Bill Plaschke, latimes.com, 17 June 2019
• On many others, poorly-equipped authorities have tried to tackle fires with little more than jerry cans of water and wet blankets.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic, 22 July 2019
• The rising prices have been a wet blanket on an otherwise robust economy over the last year, as unemployment has fallen below 4% and the workforce has grown.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Volunteers kept some of them from asphyxiating by keeping them on land wrapped in wet blankets, or in shallow tubs of water with tiny life jackets.
  — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
• As folks across southern Wisconsin basked in warmth and sunshine this weekend, meteorologists threw a cold, wet blanket of a forecast to chill any thoughts that spring can't be far off.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2020
• One concern is that the atmosphere is mostly inert nitrogen—and in a rocket engine that nitrogen acts like a wet blanket.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Ars Technica, 27 June 2020
• Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor of management at Yale University, has a more direct message for boards: This is no time to be a wet blanket.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024