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.
• That leaves the Cowboys with a swath of options at No. 26.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• 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
• The two-day event features a lineup that cuts a wide swath across the country landscape.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2024
• The shutdowns come amid a wider swath of store closures by Walmart.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Many licensed providers have lengthy waitlists, and large swaths of the county are child-care deserts, with spots for just a fraction of the young children who need them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2024
• Many licensed child-care providers have lengthy wait lists, and large swaths of the county are child-care deserts, with spots for just a fraction of the young children who need them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• The swath of sand stretches nearly a mile along the coast, ending at a narrow creek that allows ocean water to curl in and behind the dune to feed the tidal marsh.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• About a decade ago, the Islamic State declared the establishment of a caliphate over swaths of Syria and Iraq.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2024
• The ambition now is to recruit otters to help restore the ecological health of a much wider swath of the West Coast.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Many licensed providers have lengthy wait lists, and large swaths of the county are child-care deserts, with space for only a fraction of the young children who need them.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
• Humid heat waves will affect swaths of the world not used to such extreme conditions.
  — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 9 Oct. 2023
• Gusty winds could also pose potential problems for a large swath of the West, forecasts show.
  — Daniel Amarante, ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• An invasive species’ origins Asian honey bees are native to a wide swath of Asia, from Afghanistan to Japan.
  — Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
• Businesses across a vast swath of Maine, from beach towns close to the New Hampshire border to towns in the woods nearly 200 miles north, also shut down.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Every time the ball swung to Beverley, the defense sagged inside the arc, giving the Chicago Bulls point guard a wide swath of space to line up and fire off his shot.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2023
• False eyelashes—real human hair, the box promises—come next, on top of a thick swath of mascara.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
• And a fourth splits Tyto alba into four species, each covering its own broad swath of the planet.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024
• It’s sewn of two lovely velvets: a floral in muted pinks, greens, and purple for the center swath and a rose-hued solid on both ends.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2023
• Below us, as the haze dissipates, the island gleams green, a swath of velveteen shaped, to my mind, like nothing more symbolic than the webbed foot of a goose.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2023
• Across Hawaii, homes have been converted to short-term rentals, taking up large swaths of potential long-term rental units.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
• Shorts, T-shirts, hoodies, men and women, a wide swath of middle America.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024