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Examples of swathe
swathe
It occupies a swathe of tranquility where the Ile-de-France melts into Normandy.
From the independent.co.uk
An even wider swathe of land is plagued by wind and water erosion or salination.
From the guardian.co.uk
The royal wedding generated a patriotic swathe of English sparkling wine sales.
From the independent.co.uk
It will reocate hundreds of residents and rip apart a swathe of a mountain range.
From the boston.com
Effectively, a swathe of clinically important targets is invisible to research.
From the sciencedaily.com
It's a swathe of European countries, including Portugal, Italy, Ireland and Spain.
From the smh.com.au
Is it possible, then, to have an image that is representative of this wide swathe?
From the huffingtonpost.com
Outside the city a swathe of farmland the size of Portugal has been destroyed.
From the economist.com
We need to drastically suppress the massive salaries paid across a swathe of jobs.
From the guardian.co.uk
- An enveloping bandage
- Swaddle: wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant"
- (swathing) cloth coverings wrapped around something (as a wound or a baby)
- A swathe, or swath /u02C8sweu026Au00F0/: rhymes with "bathe") or swath (/u02C8swu0252u03B8/: rhymes with "Goth") is the width of a scythe stroke or a mowing-machine blade, the path of this width made in mowing or the mown grass or grain lying on such a path. The mower with a scythe moves along the mowing-edge with the uncut grass to the right and the cut grass laid in a neat row to the left, on the previously mown land...
- A bandage; a band; A group of people; Alternative spelling of swath; To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers
- The band of print produced by one pass of a printhead
