How to Use swath in a Sentence

swath

noun
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  • He cut a swath through the field with his scythe.
  • An aerial view of the countryside shows wide swathes of green.
  • For the past 12 hours though, a huge swath of the planet was not so lucky.
    — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 July 2024
  • The bridge soars over the Route de Meyrin, which cuts through a swath of Swiss forest.
    — Karen Burshtein, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • That leaves the Cowboys with a swath of options at No. 26.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
  • What, then, is the deal in this swath of central and coastal Oregon?
    — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The change affects a wide swath of GPUs, some of which are quite recent.
    — Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 28 July 2022
  • The total eclipse will last more than 4 minutes in some places along the 115-mile wide swath.
    — Maddie Burakoff, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Gas is under $3 a gallon across a swath in the middle of the country.
    — David Koenig, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • All marveled at the size of the system, which appeared to stretch across a large swath of the horizon.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 24 May 2022
  • Mahomes drops back, pump fakes and sprints forward past a pass rush to a swath of green grass.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The two-day event features a lineup that cuts a wide swath across the country landscape.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
  • In other words, the rules could affect the production and sale of pork across a broad swath of the country.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The shutdowns come amid a wider swath of store closures by Walmart.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
  • One child was killed over the weekend in Texas as flooding impacted large swaths of the state.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 May 2024
  • Nowadays, a swath is cut right up the mountain as each lift is plumbed with snow-making gear.
    — Rick Steves, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2023
  • Right above, there’s a large swath of landscaped outdoor space just off the suite’s sitting area.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And a large swath of fans is skeptical that Watson is guilty of anything at all.
    — cleveland, 3 July 2022
  • Over a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa, coups and power grabs roiled the region.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Cleveland is in one of two swaths of the state that have returned to normal conditions.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 20 July 2023
  • The effects of the strike were immediate, with a large swath of the country's freight railways grinding to a stop.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
  • It was destroyed in the blazing fires that spread in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco that wiped out large swaths of the city.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • When the storm moved south, residents of an enormous swath of the central region of the state were on high alert for flash flooding.
    — Viviana Hinojos, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Collecting the acorns will be just as much fun as painting them in a swath of autumn colors.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 July 2022
  • That means on Monday, a new swath of students will be without service.
    — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Oct. 2022
  • For decades, this swath of Manhattan had been a white whale for New York politicians looking to make their mark on the skyline.
    — Curbed, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The hottest weather could hit large swaths of the Midwest by next Tuesday, June 18, stretching into June 24.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2024
  • But the new law won't, as the post claims, expand free health insurance to a large swath of Americans, experts say.
    — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Polls are only as good as their sample: the wider, more representative swath of the public that responds to polling calls, the better the data.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
  • What applies to one artist thus applies across the board to an entire swath of artists who are, again in a very broad sense, deemed similarly historically valid or invalid.
    — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024

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