swathe
IPA: swˈɑð
noun
- A bandage; a band
- (chiefly British) Alternative spelling of swath [The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.]
verb
- To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers
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Examples of "swathe" in Sentences
- What swathed the town
- The storm swathed the city.
- I swathed myself with blanket.
- The dog is swathed with cotton.
- Swathe is one of the girl in the colony.
- This fabric is to swathe a homeless person.
- Once again, there's that 80-mile swathe, which is so critical.
- Can you just give us an idea of the geography here, what kind of swathe we're talking about from Midwest City to Moore?
- And it's not just the biotech companies that are in the race; a swathe of companies including oil majors are also investing in R&D.
- Or because we are so horrendously thin on the ground that our patch is a great swathe of real estate, far too big to effectively cover.
- The gray clouds became a long, low swathe of ruby red, or garnet red -- such as one sees in a glass of heavy burgundy when held to the light.
- Can you give us any sense of the geography, from Midwest City, we're told, a suburban area, to Moore City, what kind of swathe was cut by this tornado?
- And foreign aid, ironically, is one of the elements of spending that actually has a constituency among a certain swathe of conservative elites (Michael Gerson, etc.).
- No, much better to leave them as dependent on State largesse, as that maintains a huge swathe of State-client, and therefore Labour voters throughout the country. on April 9, 2010 at 9: 15 pm Serpico
- "One of the myths we hold in this country is that there's a single fault, but in reality there's a swathe about 200 kilometers wide where there are lots of faults that are potentially active," he said.
- Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft-soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath - towels till he resembled a mummy.
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