Bundles up

Usage examples of swathes.

Midsummer flowers cloaked the flanks of the recent barrows two hundred paces to their left in swathes of brittle blue, the hue deepening as the sun sank lower behind the mounds.

Behind, the others thrust and thrust again with the torches, cutting swathes of fire to keep the snakes away.

The tide had torn into the ramp, cutting swathes through it, each one a narrow gully winding between walls of cold flesh.

For one heart-stopping moment I thought they were all dead or dying, mown down in swathes by that stuttering machine gun, then I saw mr.

Ducos stood and crossed to a window from which he stared at the rain which swept in great swathes across the Place St Julien.