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nounPlural swaths, Plural swathes sweɪð 1A broad strip or area of something. vast swathes of countryside figurative a significant swathe of popular opinion Example sentencesExamples - Broad swathes of China's industrial heartland are now chronically short of electricity.
- The mass media provided the means to promote those brands: television and radio networks, magazines, and newspapers that reached vast swaths of the public simply and efficiently.
- Planting of cork oak, fig and magnolia grandiflora, for example, will contribute bold structure and varied foliage, while colour will be provided by broad swathes of woodland perennials.
- Well we must wait to see the reaction to Space for Nature, especially as the project aims to expand and purchase large swaths of valuable forested areas in South Bohemia and Moravia.
- But yesterday, red-faced officials admitted whole swathes were lifted word for word grammatical slips and all from a student thesis.
- Even if the refuge is protected, which looks likely, the energy bill still could still open vast swaths of other public lands to for-profit exploitation.
- In contrast, only modest efforts are now underway in the industry as a whole to integrate broad swaths of the enterprise.
- It reserved special scorn for the General Mining Law of 1872, which has handed over huge swaths of public land to miners since it was instituted.
- Broad swaths of asphalt also fragment wildlife habitat and block migration corridors - and will eventually threaten populations isolated from food sources and potential mates.
- In the fall of 2003, U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq.
- As we made our way to Minj, emerald green tea plantations and broad swaths of coffee trees revealed evidence of foreign development.
- Beginning in August, Florida was flattened by four successive hurricanes that ripped up broad swaths of the state.
- Because of the willful collective historical and moral ignorance of vast swaths of the public and the opinion leaders who influence them.
- Morganton's struggles are playing out not just across many other parts of North Carolina but also through swaths of the American heartland.
- Raw materials were brought to the city from across the huge swathe of Northern England under Viking control in the 10th century.
- In 164 photographs, taken during a trip from the coast inland, he examines the results of generations of logging that have left swaths of barren landscape where lush rain forests once grew.
- The ideological objection to legalisation is ugly and simple, and touches broader swathes of the world.
- ‘It looks bad,’ she said, noting that huge swaths of the park appear to have been deforested.
- A few areas cut across disciplines and require particularly broad, horizontal swaths of expertise.
- Huge swathes of the area were masked under a pall of white smoke and a strong smell hung in the air.
2A row or line of grass, corn, or other crop as it falls or lies when mown or reaped. if the day is windy, the swathes should be high and narrow Example sentencesExamples - In the unlikely event of a sea entry into Dunedin, the traveller would see a small city ringed by large swathes of rough grass and trees, a ‘Town Belt’.
- It involves natural-looking gardens and swathes of grasses mixed with drifts of perennials chosen for their shape, color and hardiness.
- It's a familiar scene in the country - a tractor chugging its way across a field mowing down swath after swath of green alfalfa.
- A device on a mobile agricultural machine for contactless scanning of contours extending over the ground, such as the contour of a swath of crop material.
- Smith flashes a smile and scuffs his foot across a swath of browned grass where Greene and the other sprinters had vomited.
- 2.1 A strip left clear by the passage of a mowing machine or scythe.
the combine had cut a deep swathe around the border of the fields Example sentencesExamples - It cut a deadly swathe through the Philippines and Taiwan earlier in the week.
- Known as our first family of Celtic music, this band's roots go deep and wide and cut a swath across musical genres.
- We stood in the middle of the road, and looked at the machines, the torn-up swath sixty feet wide, at the trees on fire, the smoke rolling, the mud, the whole mess.
- The well known eccentric says the machine is perfectly safe: it cuts a swathe about the width of a lawn mower and at the same time burns the grass, making laborious collection of the clippings unnecessary.
- An ugly swathe has been cut through the magnificent forest opposite the McGarry farm.
- In the background, the soon-to-be evacuated red-roofed villas of Dugit were visible, amidst swathes of razed farmland.
- Esgar had planned to drive iron stakes every few feet, joined by lengths of chain, but that proved too costly, so he settled for clearing a swath as wide as a lady might cast a stone.
- So when the government decided to cut a swath of Tunbury and some adjacent woods to expand a major highway, it took the trouble to ensure that the dormice- and part of the forest itself-were both moved to new locations nearby.
- At that point in time, it moved north through Mississippi, cutting a swath from one side of Mississippi to the other, which destroyed the coast of Mississippi and all of the infrastructure in the first three miles.
- Along the wall, they has cleared a swath as wide as a football field, shearing off row after row of houses.
- For major roads they cleared swathes as wide as the distance of two cannon shots.
Phrases Pass through (something) causing great damage, destruction, or change. the great storm cut a swathe through the country Example sentencesExamples - Shortly thereafter, she'd begun to rent a small house near where much of the earlier destruction had cut a swath through the town.
- In many African communities where AIDS has cut a swath through the young adult population, the older generation is caring for its grown-up children and their children.
- Increasing numbers of ticks have cut a swath through the young grouse populations.
- This period of relative tranquility ended around 1240, when Tartar invaders were cutting a swath through Europe.
- Although there have been many protests as the giant fence cuts a swathe through communities and farmland, the ultra orthodox ruling tyke party vowed to continue the construction.
- He said the Environment Canada reports reinforces his perception that the province was lax in its preparation for the hurricane, which cut a wide swath of destruction across Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
- Another shell burst overhead, cutting a swath through the scattered ranks of brown greatcoats.
- A gay stigma - particularly powerful in the still homophobic world of African-Americans - keeps the disease on the ‘down-low’ even as it cuts a swathe through whole populations.
- Wald singled out AIDS, which is cutting a swath through many of the continent's armies.
- For reinstall and reformat like the champions of old had cut a wide swath across the plains and laid waste to the evil of the registry which had existed.
Attract a great deal of attention by trying to impress others. Example sentencesExamples - The public personas of some writers cut a wide swath through the publishing world.
- After cutting a wide swath through dance music's hardest-hitting genres, Jackal & Hyde had such an itch to succeed that the duo plunged ahead and created its own brand of block-rocking sound.
- His repertoire cuts a wide swath, from low key ‘still waters’ styles to edgy creations with unmistakable attitude.
- Tavisome and Brodde in front of me have spread out to nearly a sword's length apart, and are cutting a wide swath through the enemy.
- Now soy devotees are making more health claims - not approved by a government agency but based on dozens of scientific studies - that soy cuts a wide swath of health benefits flint shouldn't be ignored.
- So, when you think about, it really cuts a wide swathe of people.
- This area will cut a wide swathe along largely low-lying land from the Route K roundabout to behind Tauriko township.
- Blockhead's instrumentals cut a wide swath away from his other contemporaries.
- While they can't be used when you're standing or running, once they've been set in place, they can cut a wide swath across a battlefield with the high rate of fire.
- While focusing on a narrowly defined data set, he manages to produce a volume that cuts a wide swath through the history of the motion picture industry.
Origin Old English swæth, swathu 'track, trace', of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch zwad(e) and German Schwade. In Middle English the term denoted a measure of the width of grassland, probably reckoned by a sweep of the mower's scythe. Rhymes bathe, lathe, rathe, scathe, spathe verbswathes sweɪðsweɪð [with object]usually be swathed inWrap in several layers of fabric. his hands were swathed in bandages Example sentencesExamples - The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
- It didn't really matter whether she was swathed in silk or casual in cotton - she was stunning either way.
- Often the pastures are swathed in mist, giving them a dreamlike quality.
- One thing hadn't been lost in the leap, and that was the memory of Al swathed in bandages.
- Inside the van the scientists pulled aside layers of cloth swathing the king.
- The seats were still swathed in poly, the floor mats wrapped in paper.
- One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg beside him.
- Giles looked down at the huge, white bulbous bandages swathing her arms and legs.
- It was as if the models were swathed in giant fabric sample books, each layer peeling off to reveal another beneath.
- Later that day, I finally came to, only to find my head swathed in yards of bandages.
- For the second day in a row the moors were swathed in mists first thing in the morning, a sea mist rolling in again to meet them, and the world damp, drizzly and chill.
- The warm fall's night was perfect, but when one was swathed in garments in dancing, it was incredibly hot.
- Snowdrops look best when left to their own sense of wild abandon; swathing woodland and gardens in bright whiteness, and challenging the dismal grey light of winter.
- The early morning mists that swathed the hills and the moors descended during the late afternoon, to meet a chill sea mist flowing in from the Channel.
- The man was tall and thin, resembling a scrawny tree, as the black robes he was swathed in covered him from neck to toe in a most unflattering style.
- Ayrshire landmark Ailsa Craig is swathed in a layer of mist, thick enough to maintain a veil of secrecy.
- A few were in wheelchairs, others on crutches and swathed in bandages.
- Turrisaevum jutted out across the landscape, half swathed in mist and silhouetted against the dim skyline.
- It was of a beach, and the sky was swathed in shades of robin's egg blue.
- She was swathed in white, bound from head to toe in that mother of all hues, immaculate and true.
Synonyms wrap, envelop, bind, swaddle, bandage, bundle up, muffle up, cover, cloak, shroud, drape, wind, enfold, bedeck, overlay, encase, sheathe
nounPlural swaths, Plural swathessweɪðsweɪð A piece or strip of material in which something is wrapped. they wrapped the body inside a canvas swathe Example sentencesExamples - There is a rough and ready quality to the portraits, which often feature a swathe of canvas carelessly draped, by leading Swiss photographer Christian Coigny.
- Liquid Dreaming by lorrainemd is just plain pretty - especially that swathe of red material behind the model which looks more like ink diffused in water than fabric.
- In fact, the swathe of material - about six yards long and two feet wide - is a saree, a traditional Indian dress.
Origin Late Old English swath- (noun), swathian (verb); compare with swaddle. nounswôTH British spelling of swath
verbswāT͟Hsweɪð [with object]usually be swathed inWrap in several layers of fabric. his hands were swathed in bandages Example sentencesExamples - The seats were still swathed in poly, the floor mats wrapped in paper.
- Ayrshire landmark Ailsa Craig is swathed in a layer of mist, thick enough to maintain a veil of secrecy.
- One thing hadn't been lost in the leap, and that was the memory of Al swathed in bandages.
- Often the pastures are swathed in mist, giving them a dreamlike quality.
- She was swathed in white, bound from head to toe in that mother of all hues, immaculate and true.
- For the second day in a row the moors were swathed in mists first thing in the morning, a sea mist rolling in again to meet them, and the world damp, drizzly and chill.
- It didn't really matter whether she was swathed in silk or casual in cotton - she was stunning either way.
- The man was tall and thin, resembling a scrawny tree, as the black robes he was swathed in covered him from neck to toe in a most unflattering style.
- Inside the van the scientists pulled aside layers of cloth swathing the king.
- The early morning mists that swathed the hills and the moors descended during the late afternoon, to meet a chill sea mist flowing in from the Channel.
- Turrisaevum jutted out across the landscape, half swathed in mist and silhouetted against the dim skyline.
- Snowdrops look best when left to their own sense of wild abandon; swathing woodland and gardens in bright whiteness, and challenging the dismal grey light of winter.
- It was of a beach, and the sky was swathed in shades of robin's egg blue.
- Later that day, I finally came to, only to find my head swathed in yards of bandages.
- It was as if the models were swathed in giant fabric sample books, each layer peeling off to reveal another beneath.
- The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
- Giles looked down at the huge, white bulbous bandages swathing her arms and legs.
- One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg beside him.
- A few were in wheelchairs, others on crutches and swathed in bandages.
- The warm fall's night was perfect, but when one was swathed in garments in dancing, it was incredibly hot.
Synonyms wrap, envelop, bind, swaddle, bandage, bundle up, muffle up, cover, cloak, shroud, drape, wind, enfold, bedeck, overlay, encase, sheathe
nounswāT͟Hsweɪð A piece or strip of material in which something is wrapped. Example sentencesExamples - Liquid Dreaming by lorrainemd is just plain pretty - especially that swathe of red material behind the model which looks more like ink diffused in water than fabric.
- In fact, the swathe of material - about six yards long and two feet wide - is a saree, a traditional Indian dress.
- There is a rough and ready quality to the portraits, which often feature a swathe of canvas carelessly draped, by leading Swiss photographer Christian Coigny.
Origin Late Old English swath- (noun), swathian (verb); compare with swaddle. |