swales

plural of swale

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swales
Noun
  • The drought has also set the stage for devastating wildfires in Brazil that have destroyed huge swaths of the Amazon as well as the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands, and choked cities in thick smoke.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
  • After the water leaves the wetlands, it’s directed into the reservoir, then sent to TRWD’s municipal customers for final treatment.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Systems to better protect oceans, coastal marshes and mangroves will also be on the agenda, as well as an emphasis on the indigenous people who live on and manage much of the world’s natural places.
    Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
  • One of the hits of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, helmer Hadi’s poignant feature debut follows an impoverished girl living with her grandmother in the Mesopotamian marshes during the Saddam Hussein regime.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • They are found in a wide variety of habitats but prefer oak-cabbage palm hammocks, freshwater marshes and sloughs, pine flatwoods, and more open agricultural areas.
    Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • If something happens to the water, land or the sloughs that hold the wild rice beds, the tribe has nowhere else to go, Tsosie explained.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Over the past decade, DER has restored multiple unprofitable bogs, including the Eel River Headwaters Restoration.
    Chelsea Torres, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The agency said rising water levels in rivers, gullies and swamps may push the reptiles into residential areas in search of dry ground.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The land was also covered by swamps and ponds, where animals lived, including deer, ducks and hogs.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Native to the marshlands of central Wisconsin, Native Americans have harvested cranberries for centuries.
    Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Once settled, campers can follow the Shoreline Trail from camp to make a loop around Turtle Back Hill, a promontory that juts out into a brackish, intertidal salt marshlands.
    Don Sproul, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The song centers on a potential lover intent on enticing someone who found big cities in California and New York underwhelming to try out the sights of moonlit cypress trees in Louisiana, with its swamplands and sounds of Zydeco.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • At the time of the launch, the lineup included all-purpose cleaners, dish soaps, hand washes, hand cream and candles, much of which was Made in Italy.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Some clothing may be pretreated with permethrin and deter mosquitoes for up to 20 washes.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
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“Swales.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swales. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.

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