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• With MANAMANA we capture an enormous swath of the American technology industry.[2021 November 5, Bill Mann, “FAANG is Dead. Long Live MANAMANA”, in The Motley Fool, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2022. From the entry MAMAA
• The Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne once ruled a swath of western Europe from Aachen.2018 May 10, Geir Moulson, Christoph Noelting, “France’s [Emmanuel] Macron backs European unity amid US tensions”, in The Seattle Times…. From the entry Holy Roman Emperor
• Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.2010 January 14, Simon Romero, “Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead”, in The New York Times. From the entry untold
• The company certainly cut a wide swath in a conservative industry.1998, Jeff Goldsmith, “Columbia/HCA: A Failure of Leadership”, in Health Affairs, volume 17, number 2, page 27. From the entry cut a wide swath
• Schroeder and colleagues found what they call a “carnivore gap”: a large swath of medium-size niches that were empty.2021 February 25, Cara Giaimo, “The Outsized Influence of Teen T. Rex and Other Young Dinosaurs”, in The New York Times. From the entry dromaeosaur
• Swaths of Angola are still littered with land mines, some produced decades ago in countries that no longer exist.2017 April 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “In Angolan Town, Land Mines Still Lurk 'Behind Every Bush'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry mined
• The catch: Its intricate, knitlike patterns are stenciled, using a swath of chain mail specially fabricated for the task.2015 July 23, Roberta Smith, “‘Bonsai’ Show at Maccarone Honors Roger Brown”, in New York Times. From the entry knitlike
• Sherman's army cut a swath of destruction fifty miles wide as it marched leisurely through Georgia without any meaningful Confederate resistance.2006, Christopher J. Olsen, “Confederate Families at War in 1864–1865”, in The American Civil War: A Hands-on History, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry Sherman necktie
• Suddenly my world expanded from a small swath of lit snow to the immense darkness of the place.1988 April 17, Liz Nichol, “EVEREST IS CHALLENGING_WITHIN LIMITS”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02…. From the entry North Col
• These values are based on the premise that 25 percent of the insecticide deposits in the first swath.1950, United States. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Entomological Technique - Issues 271-314, page 6. From the entry overdrift
• Application to successive swaths results in overdrift, which increases the deposit by 10 to 20 percent in each swath.1950, United States. Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Entomological Technique - Issues 271-314, page 6. From the entry overdrift
• The grimless reaper mows a wide swath.1919 March 15, anonymous, “From Sarajevo to Amerongen—and on to St. Helena or Its Equivalent” in The Alumni Quarterly and Fortnightly…. From the entry grimless
• The problem isn’t just health care or young men: All swaths of Americans increasingly appear to find themselves in a nihilistic mood.2024 December 12, Rebecca Jennings, “Luigi Mangione and the blackpilling of America”, in Vox, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2024. From the entry black pill
• Jerusha turned, a flush on her cheeks that wasn't makeup, a swath of steam from the vaporizer swirling around her chest, disembodying her head.2015, Marlys Millhiser, Nightmare Country, →ISBN. From the entry disembody
• With his signature red beret and class-based rhetoric, president Hugo Chavez has cut a wide swath through this oil-rich but impoverished nation.2004 August 15, Gary Marx, “Venezuelans head to polls in president's recall election”, in San Diego Union Tribune. From the entry cut a wide swath
• They're a throwback to the first days of skiing, before resorts cut wide swaths of trees, and machines rolled and packed the snow.2003 November 23, Newsweek, Travel, In The Trees. From the entry glade
• Figure 3.35 illustrates the small cycloidal swaths of the Anchor, Illinois, tornado and the giant cycloidal swaths of the Homer Lake, Indiana, tornado.1983, Robert F. Abbey Jr., T. Theodore Fujita, “Tornadoes: The Tornado Outbreak of 3-4 April 1974”, in Edwin Kessler, editor, The…. From the entry super outbreak
• In this sector a narrow swath marked in red ran northeast, broadening into a shape like the flyswatter Yao was turning in his fingers.1978, Hugh McLeave, A Borderline Case, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 148. From the entry Kokyar
• The only problem with this theory is that large swaths of rural Newfoundland and Labrador, where most mother-in-law doors are found, weren’t historically subject to property tax.2026 April 28, Ainsley Hawthorn, “Were N.L’.s ‘mother-in-law doors’ a tax avoidance strategy?”, in CBC.ca, archived from the original on…. From the entry mother-in-law door
• Scientists predict that La Niña this winter will lead to below average precipitation in a large swath of California, stretching from the Bay Area to the state’s southern border.2021 November 16, Soumya Karlamangla, “What La Niña Means for California’s Drought”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry La Niña
• But it also remains that a TimberBiel sighting (that one’s all yours, gossip columnists!) is something that a wide swath of news organizations would be bound to pick up.2011 September 7, Scott Stinson, “eTalk and the celebrity gossip juggernaut”, in National Post. From the entry TimberBiel
• The scorched-earth policy that voters adopted toward the Tories left them with no seats in Scotland and Wales and greatly reduced numbers through the prosperous swath called Middle England.1997 May 3, Warren Hoge, “Blair Takes Charge, Vowing 'Practicable' Policies”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2013. From the entry scorched-earth policy
• As you leave Welford, the path cuts a swath through large tracts of wheat and quickly arrives at Weston-on-Avon, a super-cute village with white-washed thatched-rooved houses, but no commerce.1996, Frank Booth, The Independent Walker’s Guide to Great Britain: 35 Enchanting Walks in Great Britain’s Charming Landscape, New York…. From the entry rooved

Meaning of swath

1. noun The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
2. noun A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.

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Questions about swath in a sentence

How do you use swath in a sentence?

Swath is used as a noun. For example: “A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.”

What is a short sentence with swath?

“The grimless reaper mows a wide swath.”

What does swath mean?

Swath means the track cut out by a scythe in mowing.