Synonyms of swaths

swaths

noun

variants or swathes

plural of swath

1

as in parts

a long narrow area

The mower cut a swath through the tall grass.

A large swath of the country was affected by the hurricane.

From the cliffside, we enjoyed a stunning view of the swath of coastline below.

Related Words

• parts
• areas
• strips
• regions
• lands
• zones
• tracts
• corridors
• belts
• necks
• territories
• districts
• domains
• realms
• latitudes
• ranges
• terrains
• neighborhoods
• vicinities

2

as in strips

a long narrow piece of material

They decorated the walls with swaths of fabric.

Related Words

• strips
• ribbons
• lists
• tapes
• belts
• straps
• bandages
• bindings
• bands
• swatches
• slips
• girths
• slats

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of swaths

The vanishing New York chronicled in the blogs of the mid-aughts has mostly vanished, NYU has colonized large swaths of downtown, and a populace struggling to afford the crushing price of housing has arisen in its wake. — David Freedlander, Curbed, 11 Sep. 2026

Charity retail is facing a crisis, flooded with high volumes of low-quality goods and struggling to justify a business model that sends swathes of unused items to countries that do not have the right infrastructure to process it. — Tansy Hoskins, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2026

The fire came as temperatures across large swaths of Southern California climbed over 100 degrees, with temperatures feeling 5 to 10 degrees hotter due to high humidity, according to the National Weather Service’s Oxnard office. — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Already, the Houthis control Yemen’s capital, swaths of the country’s northwest, and much of its Red Sea coastline north of the island. — Nic Robertson, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026

There was no hiding from the atrocity of a 3-14 season that left large swaths of the Jets fan base already calling for Glenn’s head. — Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

But the truth of it is that Sharaa forced his hand by seizing swathes of the SDF’s territory in a lightning offensive in January. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026

Civil Protection units, supported by army squadrons, were still battling flare-ups in the provinces of Sétif and Guelma this week, where large swathes of forests have been burned. — ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026

Mining the moribund annals of art history, the duo create tenderly wrought paintings and drawings that often revisit the aesthetics of the Hapsburg and Ottoman Empires, which overtook large swaths of the artists’ native Croatia for centuries. — Alex Jovanovich, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026