swath
Example Sentences
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A massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 in Russia brought tsunami alerts to a wide swath of the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times
The following month, they caused widespread internet service outages that affected swaths of Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
From Los Angeles Times
This has been helped along by the fact that there are swaths of Americans who consider themselves Christians, but who don’t interface with traditional authority figures when it comes to faith.
From Salon
The ban has been met with uproar from large swaths of the nearly half a million certified American commercial drone pilots.
The US personnel who were targeted were supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, the international effort to combat IS, which seized swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory in 2014.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
