swath
IPA: swˈɑθ
noun
- The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
- (often figuratively) A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
- (nautical) Acronym of small waterplane area twin hull: a ship design philosophy for reducing pitching and rolling, and increasing stability, in all sea states.
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Examples of "swath" in Sentences
- What swathed the town
- The storm swathed the city.
- I swathed myself with blanket.
- The dog is swathed with cotton.
- We need to ensure the broad swath.
- The two tornadoes covered a swath.
- Swathe is one of the girl in the colony.
- This fabric is to swathe a homeless person.
- Only MIT deserves that big a swath of the continent
- Here is the version with the big swath of white space.
- He said, usually you see some kind of swath if there's been a tornado.
- GRACE: Jim, how large of a swath is the Gulf Coast going to take the hit?
- I saw the "yellow brick road" as some kind of swath of leopard-print fabric.
- The "swath" she is winning may be the racially intolerant white voters. liar, liar, pants on fire
- Through Tonight: The evening's looking pretty pleasant as the main swath of cloudiness holds off until after sunset.
- The Michoud Assembly Facility east of New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., both were located along the main swath of the storm's devastation.
- I had a great time, but I know I only saw a tiny "swath" of what was going on over the weekend, and some of the other 77,000 fans who attended have been reporting back as well.
- UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Randy Tom here, from your bird's eye view as Bill said, are you able to see any kind of swath that this storm basically carved through Florida or is it just too wide a thing to see from the air?
- Bill Cosby tried, Chatter, but he got attacked for his sexual piccadilloes (a method used to silence his otherwise pithy words about what’s wrong with these certain young blacks - BTW, let’s not paint any other blacks with this brush …. the swath is narrow … it only includes those young men and women who commit the crimes and intimidate others).