How to Use swath in a Sentence

swath

noun

• 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
• 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
• Over the course of the next few million years, the black hole would cut a large swath through the Milky Way, gobbling up stars and scattering more in all directions.
  — Randall Munroe, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2022
• Small wonder, then, that the party would also cede the terms of engagement to Republicans on trans rights as well, once again alienating swaths of their own base.
  — Samantha Riedel, Them, 24 Oct. 2024
• The focus group participants represented a broad swath of the electorate, with some favoring Republican candidates, and others Democrats.
  — Kff Health News, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024