How to Use swale in a Sentence

swale

noun

• The thing with the swales is, there aren’t a lot of eyes on it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2019
• Look for the golden hue of the tamarack on one of the swales (low points) late in the fall.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2017
• From a swale short of the green, Haas chipped weakly to 15 feet and missed the putt to stay 1 down.
  — latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2017
• On the fourth hole, Day’s approach shot missed the green and trundled down a swale about 15 yards from the putting surface.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 15 June 2017
• Sirens blare, parents record cellphone videos of their young ones and people stand along the swales and wave.
  — Nick Sortal, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• The land here was laser-leveled, and workers carved a swale to give juvenile salmon a way in and out when the plain floods.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• The swale is designed to slow and capture runoff; it is lined with rocks to prevent erosion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• Streets lined with homes look like ghost towns, while parking lots and swales are packed with tailgate chairs, tents and cots.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• Add a dry stream bed, swale or just some depressions to your garden.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2023
• Color remains in the way that light strikes slopes, turning low-lying wet swales heather and hills rose.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Milkevic’s black Nissan 370Z had hit a construction barrel and gone up the grassy swale on the west side of the highway.
  — Anne Geggis, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• The pickup turned left sharply and crossed over the eastbound lanes and into the grass swale and eventually into the canal.
  — David J. Neal and Carli Teproff, miamiherald, 4 May 2017
• Then came his only bogey, at the 15th after missing a 5-foot par putt following a poor chip from a swale to the right of the green.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021
• The developers also agreed to build a drainage swale to divert runoff on the south side of the property.
  — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 14 Feb. 2023
• Some parking lots now have the swales in place, but four lots still need to have the work completed, according to Thompson.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 1 June 2018
• This No. 7 forces golfers to skirt bunkers on layup shots and leaves a potentially semi-blind approach from the bottom of a swale.
  — Teddy Greenstein and Chad Yoder, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2017
• A city spokesman said vacuum trucks collected about 1,350 gallons of sewage from the swale.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 May 2017
• On Wednesday morning, the driver of a BMW was pronounced dead after the vehicle was found crashed in a drainage swale.
  — Tiffini Theisen, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Sometimes, in the early morning hours, the crater emulates its origins when the summer sun coaxes a smoke-like mist from the dewy swale.
  — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 27 June 2019
• According to the warrant police found Roche's partially nude body in a swale and performed CPR, but to no avail.
  — Martin Vassolo and Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 18 June 2018
• The swales are shallow depressions tucked among sand dunes and fed by underground aquifers and rain water.
  — Fox News, 2 Aug. 2019
• The swales are shallow depressions tucked among sand dunes and fed by rain and underground water.
  — Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2019
• The Old Course is known for its blind drives over seas of gorse, vast greens, and swales, humps and hollows which require imagination and the ability to use the ground to your advantage.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 July 2017
• The swales will collect stormwater flowing down the hill and prevent soil and other pollutants from reaching the river.
  — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2018
• The swale can hold about 750 gallons of rainwater — and it was certainly tested last winter.
  — Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• Kirpalani’s swale is landscaped with plants that are adaptable to either wet or dry conditions.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• There are swales to collect rainwater, a well for potable water, and solar panels to capture enough energy to power the house and sell the excess back to the grid.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• The park also has a working lighthouse (no tours), and 11 miles of hiking trails through a forested ridges and swales topography, including five miles of the Ice Age Trail.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2017
• Add places for water to pool and percolate into your garden’s soil: a dry streambed, swale or simple depression filled with mulch.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2024
• During rare years with sustained downpours, moist swales are carpeted with spiky spinifex grasses that take on the appearance of fields of golden wheat.
  — John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024