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Recent Examples of swale
Keep yards well-drained by clearing gutters and creating swales or rain gardens.
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Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 26 Jan. 2026
Explore a white-sand beach and the sinks, swales, and sloughs found within the 2,500-acre Suwannee River Water Management District.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
Deer grass hovers around the swale and California poppies dot the ground.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
While an actual ditch is impractical for most yards, a swale can work wonders at moving water slowly, safely, and efficiently away.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
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Nishaa Sharma, The Spruce, 26 Jan. 2026
Explore a white-sand beach and the sinks, swales, and sloughs found within the 2,500-acre Suwannee River Water Management District.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 5 Jan. 2026
Deer grass hovers around the swale and California poppies dot the ground.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2025
While an actual ditch is impractical for most yards, a swale can work wonders at moving water slowly, safely, and efficiently away.
—Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swale
Noun
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Iraq’s reservoirs are often near depletion, its southern waterways are dying, and its marshes remain imperilled by the oil industry.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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This would be especially useful in hard-to-access forests, like the black ash marshes of northern Minnesota.—
Cole Premo,
CBS News,
3 Dec. 2025
Noun
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But those factors are irrelevant to the question of whether Silverman receives a wetlands permit, the first major step in winning a go-ahead to build.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
11 June 2026
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That licking instinct may have led Jacobs’s elk to an area known as Flag Swamp, a one-acre wetland filled with blue flag irises and shrubby willow trees.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
Noun
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The tourism industry is booming in the Dominican Republic, with the island destination garnering more than 11 million annual visitors and a slew of new projects aimed at the luxury market opening in 2025 and beyond.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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Watson also boasts extensive theatre credits including a slew of productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
11 June 2026
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Before the roads west of town were paved in 1936, reaching the lake meant navigating ruts, mud bogs and chugholes.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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Consider a just-challenging-enough pedal on the Province Lands Bike Trail, a five-plus-mile loop that takes you through dunes, pine forests, and cranberry bogs.—
Anne Bratskeir,
Travel + Leisure,
27 May 2026
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The biking is along gravel roads through Finland’s northeastern backcountry, crossing boreal forest, marshland, lakes, and low Arctic hills.—
Everett Potter,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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There are also ponds, dunes, marshlands, forests, and the historic Big Sable Point Lighthouse.—
Patricia Doherty,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
Noun
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These many watering holes are reflective of the Lone Star state's varied geographic regions, from bald cypress swamps to mountainous desert lakes.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
16 June 2026
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From the pine forests and black swamps to the marsh flats and on to the Gulf, the refuge burgeons with life in ways hard to explain to someone who hasn’t been there.—
Jeff VanderMeer,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
Noun
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Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
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The goal was to help preserve and protect the delicate valley and its fens.—
John Meyer,
Denver Post,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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After an outdoor activity, take off your clothes, toss them in the wash and take a shower.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2026
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Set, define, texturize, wash, protect, and more with products created in the chair and perfected in the lab.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 June 2026
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“Swale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swale. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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