1
a
: a row of cut grain or grass left by a scythe or mowing machine
b
: the sweep of a scythe or a machine in mowing or the path cut in one course
2
: a long broad strip or belt
3
: a stroke of or as if of a scythe
4
: a space devastated as if by a scythe
Examples of swath in a Sentence
An aerial view of the countryside shows wide swathes of green.
He cut a swath through the field with his scythe.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a weather alert on Thursday afternoon for potentially dangerous thunderstorms across parts of the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, including a large swath of the Upper Mississippi Valley and some surrounding areas.
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Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
National Weather Service forecasters in Sacramento Thursday issued a fire weather watch from 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 p.m. Monday across a wide swath of Northern California including Sacramento, Yolo, far western Placer County and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
The second stage will involve displacing all of Gaza’s two million residents to a narrow swath of land in the southern Strip.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
Chavis told the hard-hitting yet undersized safety to embrace the ethos of a honey badger, which fearlessly takes on venomous cobras and swaths of bees without fear of repercussion.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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Kate Nalepinski, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
National Weather Service forecasters in Sacramento Thursday issued a fire weather watch from 8 a.m. Sunday to 8 p.m. Monday across a wide swath of Northern California including Sacramento, Yolo, far western Placer County and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025
The second stage will involve displacing all of Gaza’s two million residents to a narrow swath of land in the southern Strip.
—Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
Chavis told the hard-hitting yet undersized safety to embrace the ethos of a honey badger, which fearlessly takes on venomous cobras and swaths of bees without fear of repercussion.
—Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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“Swath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swath. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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