swath - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • destruction: The Crablogger's swath of destruction stops just short of the dam.
  • land: Now Kurdish territory includes a plump new swath of land.
  • country: Vast swaths of the country depend entirely on private generators.
  • territory: Such agreements would still leave open a wide swath of territory for basing nuclear weapons.
  • forest: Less well known are the wide swaths of forest within the Taipei City limits, making it one of the greenest cities in Asia.

Converse of object

  • cut: Then the power of God begins to flow, then the church begins to cut a swath through the world.
  • cover: The UN covers a huge swath of collective international activity.
  • leave: Flew 800-1,000 m.p.h. at 1-2,000 ' altitude, leaving a faint swath.

Adjective modifier

  • vast: Vast swaths of the country depend entirely on private generators.
  • huge: If huge swaths of the book are wrong, or even dubious, then none of the rest can be assumed to be correct.
  • broad: Those symbols can give you traction when you're thinking about broad swaths of experience.
  • wide: They can be used for good or evil, creating a wide swath across the human landscape.
  • whole: Some jails " have developed local policies which eliminate whole swaths of eligible prisoners " .
  • large: That is why they have conceded large swaths of biology to Darwinism.

Modifies a noun

  • bathymetry: The market requirements for a high quality swath bathymetry system with a low total cost of ownership have at last been met.
  • sonar: Project ISIS: the collaborative development of the Deepscan 60 bathymetric swath imaging sidescan sonar system.
  • width: During processing the swath widths were limited to 25m per side to maintain a high number of points per bin.
  • edge: Systematic depth bias at swath edges due to SVP errors is visible superimposed on far range noise.
  • survey: Then we headed into the Prince Gustav Channel, between James Ross Island and the mainland, to begin the swath survey and coring.
  • datum: Produce maps, charts and plots of swath data sets.

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