How To Use Swathe In A Sentence

Nature notes Autumn colours are now becoming more noticeable, though large swathes of the countryside are still quite green. Times, Sunday Times
A big Chinaman, remarkably evil-looking, with his head swathed in a yellow silk handkerchief and face badly pock-marked, planted a pike-pole on the White and Yellow
Between short scenes – aiming presumably to distil the essence of Faulks's novel but actually stripping it of atmosphere and verve – swathes of prose are just read out. Birdsong; On Ageing; The Big Fellah; Yes, Prime Minister
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
My brother-in-law went into another room, and madame de Bearn began to unswathe her foot in my presence with the utmost caution and tenderness. Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself

Plant leans forward, vast swathes of hair tumbling down on either side of his weathered face. Times, Sunday Times
Seed sown in early June has produced a swathe of greenery topped by the most attractive blue flowers that seem irresistible to bees, hoverflies and other insects.
Shocked The Government is planning to abandon huge swathes of land it says cannot be saved. The Sun
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt, a bikini top - or even as a scarf.
We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
A pize on it! send it off to those who have their legs swathed with a hay-wisp, their heads thatched with a felt bonnet, their jerkin as thin as a cobweb, and their pouch without ever a cross to keep the fiend Melancholy from dancing in it. Kenilworth
This is a picture of the swather that cuts the hay down. Making hay and a dog shirt...
Had he not always been swathed in white robes, you could have imagined him in a cardie, pottering round his vegetable patch with his little grandson.
Sometimes swathes of northern cities find themselves submerged, which is just bad luck, but often as not it affects small villages with thatched houses. Times, Sunday Times
Conserving their habitat could involve preserving a patch of scrub or delaying the cutting of a swathe of hay for a few days until a bird has fledged its young.
The area is regarded as prime grazing veld for cattle, forming part of the superior ‘smaldeel’ swathe of sweetveld.
An ugly swathe has been cut through the magnificent forest opposite the McGarry farm.
In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
A properly adjusted swather is critical for cutting large a acreage in a timely fashion.
A roadshow hits the region this week to promote new walking rights which should open up large swathes of land to ramblers and countryside enthusiasts.
And do not think the upside is a great swathe of agility. Times, Sunday Times
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
He's also concerned about great swathes of other public protection measures. The Sun
His chest was swathed in bandages.
The joints of the limbs I could not see, because of the puttee-like straps in which they were swathed, and which formed the only clothing the being wore. First Men in the Moon
Then we go over the hay with this little tractor (my favorite) and an implement called a rake. (this photo doesn't show the rake) It goes down between two windrows that the swather makes and turns the hay over into the center, making a larger windrow. Making hay and a dog shirt...
Huge dams are cutting a swathe across the tropical landscape. Times, Sunday Times
Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist. Times, Sunday Times
He was standing, waiting, his hefty bulk swathed in wraps that made him look like a particolored pillow.
Sesostris, or Pharaoh Ramses II, whose mummy was unswathed in 1886 by Maspero of the Bulak Museum, and recognised as that of the greatest king of Egypt, whose grandson, Ramses III, was the last king of an ancient kingdom. when not a mere pretence, degenerated but too often into Black Magic.
She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
Often the pastures are swathed in mist, giving them a dreamlike quality.
His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs. A History of New York
He ran so they could chase him, leaving four dark swathes across the frosty surface.
Bellbirds have been implicated in the death of swathes of forest between Victoria and Queensland.
Later that day, I finally came to, only to find my head swathed in yards of bandages.
The next morning, swathed in a towel and sipping coffee from my new espresso cups, life felt fine.
A swather is a piece of equipment that cuts hay or small grain crops into windrows before baling. Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories
He's also concerned about great swathes of other public protection measures. The Sun
This compact and hardy catmint combines strongly aromatic foliage with swathes of lavender flowers. Times, Sunday Times
The major selling point was that it backed on to swathes of open countryside. FRIENDS FOR LIFE
Those seated at the tables swathed in scarlet received tall stemmed glasses of dark fluid. Arcane Circle
And it is weird to get off a boring old commuter train to be faced on the platform with a vast embonpoint, half swathed in shiny scarlet shantung silk, half exposed, like being attacked by a giant blancmange with strawberries. Simon Hoggart's week: Olympic chiefs have built a Brigadoon for the rich
His head was swathed in bandages made from a torn sheet.
A dark figure swathed in shadows stood over her, a dagger gleaming in its raised hand.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a swather belt connector needing fewer separate pieces.
The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
Renfrew Avenue South East was in the slurbs, the swathe of suburban slums in the unincorporated areas of the county stretching inland from the southern tip of Lake Washington
Portraits of the royal family placed at crossroads were heaped with garlands of flowers and swathed in burning incense. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
Instead, it was as if the models were swathed in giant fabric sample books, each layer peeling off to reveal another beneath.
We will have to accept the suburbanisation of whole swathes of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Year by year great swathes of this small nation's countryside disappear.
They contend that large swathes of the population are becoming more rigid in their political allegiances.
Otters are now spread across large swathes of the region and have even been spotted swimming in the mouth of Whitby harbour.
A cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbon stood isolated in a corner.
It grows in long, fragrant swathes beside the lanes and at the field edges. Times, Sunday Times
His face was deadly white, a bloody bandage swathed his neck, and his rainproof was soaked with the blood of a sniper's victim.
A set of inconsequential random and rare moments of happiness joined together by swathes of mundaneness.
It matches the latter's miles of gorgeous beaches, and tops them with mountains swathed in forests and an active volcano. Times, Sunday Times
The government has little control over great swathes of the country, much of it dense rainforest. Times, Sunday Times
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
Having explored different directions, most recently the doom-laden troubadour swathed in strings, he has clearly taken a look at his audience and decided to give them what they want.
Who wouldn't want to be swathed head to toe in a fabric that feels like double cream? Times, Sunday Times
The lady at the neighbouring table, with wrinkled skin, a beaky nose and bulging eyes, swathed in netted black, cast her withering glance.
Bodies lay there swathed from head to toe. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
The steering wheel and gearshift knob are swathed in leather while the stereo includes a CD player with aux-in facility and four loudspeakers. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
The biggest impacts would have swathed our globe in incandescent rock vapor, boiling the oceans dry and sterilizing the surface worldwide.
Not surprisingly, great swathes of the religious audience voiced their displeasure. Christianity Today
It matches the latter's miles of gorgeous beaches, and tops them with mountains swathed in forests and an active volcano. Times, Sunday Times
Cara Duncan, from Aberdeen, has been swathed in bandages since she was three months old to stop her skin erupting in painful blisters from an allergy to everyday items.
Nuuk is rich with undertones, tidal washes, deep swathes of velvet mezzotint, patient soundings, submarinal echoes.
Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
She is a vision of sweeping strides and soft steps swathed in airy veils and supple furs.
She saw, too vividly, the blackened swathe cut through the trees, the burned wreckage. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Debbie Tucker Green's recent Royal Court play, Truth and Reconciliation – though nothing like as so skilfully carpentered as Dorfman's – covered a huge swathe of history to suggest that some crimes are so grievous they can never be forgiven. Death and the Maiden – review
Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity.
She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics.
For the inaugural event, the dancers' lithe bodies were swathed in white.
There's a large swathe of opinion in Britain that regards the EU as some foreign imposition designed to undermine the imperial glory that is Britain.
Huge swathes of rain forest are being cleared for farming and mining.
After cutting, the swather leaves the cut hay in a long row so the rancher can use a baler to make hay bales.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
His head was swathed in bandages, his bruised features swollen out of all recognition. Times, Sunday Times
Building the tunnel would involve cutting a great swathe through the forest.
The apprentice who had kneaded the bread had not noticed anything unusual either, and since his feet were swathed, the bryony would not have reached his skin to cause a rash. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
It was clear to him that this mummy had never been unswathed before.
So might we see some Morningside matrons walking past The Canny Man pub swathed in 26 metres of silk with batwing sleeves?
On leaving Cognac, I drive through swathes of Ugni Blanc vines, dotted with red-roofed farmhouses and villages of pale local stone, bathed in the intense light for which the Charente is famed. A Slow Path to Perfection
He did, however, think it strange for this young, uninvited guest to be swathed in a blanket-like shawl, or "patu," given the sweltering summer heat. War in Context
Thick, wooden platforms clonked against the tiled floor, her diminutive figure swathed in a breezy, brightly-colored floor-length dress. Archive 2007-08-01
I did not dress up in flouncy white dresses and veils, did not own bride dolls swathed on poufy white satin, did not walk my Barbie and Ken up imaginary aisles lined in flowing tulle or carry hairbrushes as bouquets as I practised the measured steps a bride is taught to take on her way to the alter where she will be joined with her husband-to-be. Archive 2007-05-01
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
As they got nearer, one of the doors swung open and a bent, hooded figure swathed in rags came shuffling out.
The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats. Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
Two coralline pillars shoulder their way up from the deep and barge through throngs of fish to emerge swathed in surf, snarling in the face of the currents that dominate this coast.
A cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbon stood isolated in a corner.
In Germany huge swathes of the Black Forest died, leaving the stark outlines of leafless conifers in place of the formerly rich vegetation.
Hackers in that case launched a virus that erased swathes of data from the company's computers and replaced it with an image of a burning American flag. Times, Sunday Times
In the painting Mark stands in a pulpit, preaching to a group of women swathed in white mantles.
These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.
Each was swathed in robes of black, and all carried the sceptre that befitted their station.
The views were spectacular: soaring hills, swathes of purple heather and a tiny burn bubbling along the bottom of the valley. Times, Sunday Times
He swathed his own bedroom in the stuff and used it for multiple clients' homes as well, earning him the title "the prince of gray flannel. Highly Suitable Fabric
England controlled matters to choreograph the thrusts of their impressive three quarters, Mike Tindall and Perry, who repeatedly cut a swathe through the beleaguered Welsh lines.
This allows the blade to swing in a greater arc, producing a wider swathe.
At the farm sales, it was impossible not to rescue machines with names like the Nicolson swathe-turner and such things as enormous hay rakes originally designed to be drawn by horses, wooden bullock carts, or the kind of miniature tipping trailer known as a tumbril, one of the most useful things any farm could possess. Wildwood
Compared to swathers with conventional tines, twine tines guarantee optimum raking quality, even at high work speeds.
I shall unswathe it entirely, "and Braddock was about to lay sacrilegious hands on the dead, when Cockatoo entered breathlessly. The Green Mummy
They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
He adds that, while the travel industry bubbles us in resorts, ‘Great swathes of the world are increasingly undervisited, misunderstood and uncelebrated.’
Vast swathes of land are off-limits. The Sun
Politicians and regulators who are cutting a swathe through bank earnings know two things. Times, Sunday Times
With a few basic adjustments to most modern swathers, a good windrow of canola can be formed.
We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
One country I have increasingly championed is Portugal, which is emerging from a past dominated by the production of port to produce a swathe of wines from opulent reds in the Douro valley, to dry whites with a distinctive mineral core even further north in the Minho, to wines with a distinctly Portuguese character in the southern province of Alentejo. Trawling for Bargains
Tea cups tinkled in the drawing room next door and pink-faced women trying to wish their fat away padded through the hallways swathed in white towelling, on their way to the supple fingers of the waiting masseurs.
If the owners have their way, swathes of Scotland will in effect be fenced off, with the public confined to paths and pre-determined routes.
They wear a mixture of swathed and ragged traditional togas and cast-off Oxfam rags.
Until now the ship had either been shown shrouded in mist or swathed in tubes to preserve her. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, the new bike arrived this morning, all swathed in cardboard and plastic wadding.
The Canola Council of Canada suggests that the window to properly swath a crop is only 1-3 days. Even the best swathers have a problem doing a good job in tangled crops.
Sweeping strides and soft steps swathed in airy veils and supple furs…
Yet huge swathes of poverty, deprivation and overcrowding still persist. Times, Sunday Times
One thing hadn't been lost in the leap, and that was the memory of Al swathed in bandages.
The fact is that on the streets of India, certainly by Western standards, most women appear to be draped, swathed and completely covered in fabric.
While its western flanks are swathed in forestry plantations, the upper slopes of the hill are clear and because of its westerly position, offer some of the finest views in the area.
He collected a swathe of international honours, awards and prizes along the way, not least the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology.
The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
For example, the largest would have excavated a crater the size of the British Isles, boiled the oceans and swathed the planet with incandescent rock paper sterilizing the surface pretty thoroughly.
Across swathes of the radio spectrum, there are programmes in which presenters do little more than engage in light-hearted banter with the listeners. Times, Sunday Times
Plans are being laid to turn the clock back 60 years across large swathes of the resort for three days in early September.
The bracken has turned the crag into deep rust swathes and the banks of trees brushed neatly back by the winds climb the hillside in rainbow shades of autumn.
I drove heavy equipment - hay swather, tractors - starting at around 14 years old, before I had a driver's license. Sometimes, Child Labor Falls Into Gray Areas
Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
I would not be tearing down the mountain bike park swathed in padding like a football player. Margie Goldsmith: Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C.
Beneath the coverall, the CNN anchor was swathed in a bright, handpainted silk chiffon gown. Toasts to Theater, Trophies
Lady Yolanda was swathed in elegant furs.
Crime, especially violent crime and yobbery, is out of control in substantial swathes of the country.
Every effort is made to ensure that your swather runs smoothly and securely down the road.
He wrote many books, commanding a swathe of medieval history as if it had been a personal fiefdom. Times, Sunday Times
The worst of the lot was Sam Brown, a Texas-born badman who literally cut a broad swathe through Texas, California, and Nevada—his favorite weapon was the bowie knife—leaving a reputed sixteen victims in his wake. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
Swathe yourself in a statement scarf - they come superlong, with lavish fringing. Times, Sunday Times
She is also very much into scented candles being lit from every nook and corner of the bath and bedroom and scattering the place with bowls of potpourri and draping chairs with swathes of silk saris, or dupattas.
Vast swathes of usually green agricultural grassland are all brown after suffering prolonged frost and heavy snow. Times, Sunday Times
It issued a yellow fog warning covering swathes of the UK until at least 11am. The Sun
But his father sat still, smiling mildly, swathed in the blanket, like a baby in a perambulator.
Two hours later, clothed – indeed, swathed in towels as if he were a baby just taken from its bath – Karl sat in the sitting room of his chambers in the Palace, sipping a strong, sweet yellow cordial. The first sentence I wrote today
The baby lies comfortably in a white bassinet, swathed in soft butter-colored pajamas and a thin cotton blanket.
And what little there was, — the slapping of a few reef-points and the creaking of a sheave in a block or two, — was ghostly under the hollow echoing pall in which we were swathed. Chapter 25
Breakdowns happen in scattergun swathes through the whole match. Times, Sunday Times
Then came the second and third class passengers, whose remains were swathed in canvas. Titanic - Destination disaster
It is a system that has cut a swathe through suppliers. SHOPPED: The Shocking Power of British Supermarkets
Elvis Presley and John Lennon may look like the twin godheads of 20th century pop music but for a huge swathe of the world - Africa, the Caribbean and black Britain in particular - one man ranks head and shoulders above them: Bob Marley.
Campaigners said it risked opening up swathes of countryside to fracking. The Sun
It involves natural-looking gardens and swathes of grasses mixed with drifts of perennials chosen for their shape, color and hardiness.
Towns and cities will be left with thousands of unwanted apartments, schools may well be half empty and whole swathes of the countryside could be depopulated.
The undoubted chief, so swathed in bandoliers of ammunition that bullets fired at him would have bounced off, reached down and grabbed my hand.
When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name. Times, Sunday Times
A genuine little Poetess, buckramed, swathed like a mummy into Socinian and Political-Economy formulas; and yet verily alive in the inside of that! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
With opinion so divided there would be distinctive pictures of swathes of green and contrasting purple being proudly displayed. The Sun
Liquid Dreaming by lorrainemd is just plain pretty - especially that swathe of red material behind the model which looks more like ink diffused in water than fabric.
Only the swathes of descending guitar strumming keeps it remotely interesting.
Half of each pasture was left standing, and the other half was windrowed using a 4.6-m wide swather head.
Professor Joshua Fishman, regarded as one of the founders of sociolinguistics, challenges the widely held view that English, as the global lingua franca, is cutting a swathe through regional and local languages.
Appropriately titled Hiding In Full View, Alison Watt's recent paintings focus on swathes of lyrically convoluted fabrics that appear to screen unseen depths of melancholic reverie. This week's new exhibitions
Nonetheless, the evolution of the Irish landscape and Irish lordship were moving in the same general directions as changes that could be found across a large swathe of central England and parts of Wales.
The government has little control over great swathes of the country, much of it dense rainforest. Times, Sunday Times
Had he not always been swathed in white robes, you could have imagined him in a cardie, pottering round his vegetable patch with his little grandson.
Banker or not, the villas provide a sumptuous holiday complete with giant four-poster beds swathed in billowing muslin. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the wanton destruction of the rainforest, the good news is huge swathes remain untouched. The Sun
The ideological objection to legalisation is ugly and simple, and touches broader swathes of the world.
The seats were still swathed in poly, the floor mats wrapped in paper.
Although swathes of faux leather might sound less than chic for a regular house, on board the effects are different. Times, Sunday Times
The heavy rains lashing the City since Saturday have left a wide swathe of death and destruction.
Not everyone likes these cobbled trails but not that long ago this path was thirty feet wide, a swathe of mud and peat, ever-widening as more and more walkers tried to avoid the morass in the middle.
With opinion so divided there would be distinctive pictures of swathes of green and contrasting purple being proudly displayed. The Sun
As a result, whole swathes of the park are blanketed in droppings.
They should have been happy at the prospect of fresh air, swathes of green and house prices which are stupid rather than plain insane.
Whereas she (said youngest sister) was so swathed in ruffles and curls for pictures she looked like some lemon chiffon confection, I was, from about 3 or so on, dressed in pretty but far more sensible plaids (yeah, the late 60s and early 70s were a fashion wasteland) and turtlenecks, my long hair straight, shiny and pulled away from my face with a nice barrette or two. Princesses in the House « Lab Kat
In some places, great swathes of hillside have been cut away in the urgency to log timber.
Large swathes of the Protestant population are disenchanted by the peace process.
There are large swathes of uninhabited land on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa. Times, Sunday Times
Planting of cork oak, fig and magnolia grandiflora, for example, will contribute bold structure and varied foliage, while colour will be provided by broad swathes of woodland perennials.
The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red.
The bedrooms are full of limewashed wood, white tiled floors and beds swathed in white muslin.
Its hills may seem bleak, unclothed as they are by acres of trees, uncapped by ice, unswathed by snow.
Shocked The Government is planning to abandon huge swathes of land it says cannot be saved. The Sun
They wear a mixture of swathed and swagged traditional togas and cast-off Oxfam rags.
Politicians and regulators who are cutting a swathe through bank earnings know two things. Times, Sunday Times
He is swathed in gauzy film, and from a distance, he casts a very effective evil chill upon the block. Carine Fabius: What Can the Power of Art Accomplish?
Eyes closed, head lilted right back so her long silken hair swung in a rip - pling swathe over his arm as he grimly tore through every veil of rejection she had dared to pull on against him. The Bellini Bride
This time of year, start with ground turkey instead of beef, then add tropical jerk flavors from the Caribbean, and finally, swathe the loaf in thin slices of prosciutto.
That is why he was announcing the release of huge swathes of government-owned land for housebuilding. Times, Sunday Times
She swathed her enormous body in thin black fabrics.
In some places, great swathes of hillside have been cut away in the urgency to log timber.
Russia loses a vast swathe of territory to Germany. The Sun
Broad swathes of China's industrial heartland are now chronically short of electricity.

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