What is "swatches"

Usage examples of "swatches".

The headlights of the bikes threw great swatches of light across the parked cars, the beams crisscrossing one another.

Then swatches of light bobbed through the darkness, and armed men stepped from the bushes along the riverbank to approach the still figures sprawled in the bloody mud.

Then swatches of light bobbed through the darkness, and armed men stepped from the rushes along the riverbank to stealthily approach the deathly still figures sprawled in the bloody mud.

She almost forgot the swatches of material for the curtains in the nursery and she rushed back into the bright kitchen to grab them off the counter.

He was mopping his face with his handkerchief, wiping off swatches of wet makeup.

What made his appearance different this time was the presence of a blue cord wrapped about the tail in swatches and curlicues so intricate it made me dizzy to contemplate it.