: a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land
also
: a shallow depression on a golf course
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Now, scientists have a list of 35 swales across Delaware, Maryland and Virginia where the firefly lives.
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Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The world looks clean and new and fresh outside with tall purple irises blanketing the swales and the fringes of the shore and azaleas like banks of rose flames along the roadsides and the fresh new lime tongues of cottonwood leaves fluttering like a cool green stream at the edges of the clearings.
—Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
That included building a short block wall to separate the deck from the yard — and prevent skunks, possums and other critters from creeping under the deck — build an open fence to surround the property, and add a swale to retain rainwater.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Jaime spent time watching how the water flowed down to the street to figure out how to lay out the swale.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
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Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The world looks clean and new and fresh outside with tall purple irises blanketing the swales and the fringes of the shore and azaleas like banks of rose flames along the roadsides and the fresh new lime tongues of cottonwood leaves fluttering like a cool green stream at the edges of the clearings.
—Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
That included building a short block wall to separate the deck from the yard — and prevent skunks, possums and other critters from creeping under the deck — build an open fence to surround the property, and add a swale to retain rainwater.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
Jaime spent time watching how the water flowed down to the street to figure out how to lay out the swale.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Swale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swale. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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