swathe
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With its wine industry hit by a swathe of summer heatwaves, France is set to see this year's harvest hit a historic low.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
This 4.5-million-hectare swathe of forest and swamp, under normal conditions, serves as a valuable reservoir for ancient carbon.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
It ended with those same players applauding a large swathe of empty seats, some vacating as early as the 49th minute when Michael Kayode put The Bees 3-0 up.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
During their early years, the band appealed to a narrow swathe of teens and young adults.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The sea, visible ahead of her in a gray swathe only a few shades darker than the sky, moved in giant, undulating swells.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Because they cannot imagine an autumn in which they don't pause to admire the ginkgo at its finest, swathed in a feathery coat of gold.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Schools were shuttered as smoke swathed the city in Nevada, near the California border, home to around 280,000 people.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Soprano Gabriella Reyes brought both menace and comedy to Catrina, tossing off her coloratura laughter and rocking her costume of silvery bones painted on black and swathed in tulle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
One features sunrise-pastel walls and an angelic ceiling mural, and another is swathed in bluish gray and gold marble print paper on the walls and ceiling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2025
Gently, almost caressingly, Byerley’s arms went around the shoulders and under the swathed legs of the cripple.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
Becky Hill, up for best dance act, opted for a black outfit which skimmed her upper half while swathing her legs in flowing material.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2024
Masi speculates Comet Pons-Brooks’s horseshoe shape may result from shadows cast by the dusty “coma” swathing the object after the outburst.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 26, 2023
A later segment is dedicated to the art nouveau dancer Marie Louise Fuller and her efforts “to disappear inside the rigors and extravagance of her work” by swathing herself in otherworldly costumes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2023
Yet even after they manipulated the fabric into skirts and aprons and shed the swathing, the concepts and choreography appeared to hold them back on a deeper level.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021
Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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