Scythe strip

Usage examples of swath.

The glaring acetylene headlight cut a misty swath through the smudgy gloom.

In a quick motion, he pulled off the coat, the sports jacket, tossed them aside, grabbed a bladeless safety razor from the cabinet shelf and scraped a swath through the layer of white lather, then dashed for the door and flung it wide.

Lousiana had acquired, by right of eminent domain, a 300-foot-wide swath through the de Ia Chevaux property for the construction of a superhighway.

The trader track would fade before long, he recalled, the dyke on his right dwindling, the road itself becoming a sandy swath humped with ant nests, bone-white driftwood and yellow knots of grass, with floods wiping the ruts away every spring.

You will be invisible, but everywhere you go in the Metaverse you will leave a swath of destruction and confusion a mile wide.

Her illusions needed some minor improvement, but by the time he went against the rabble led by Mors, Riverwind ought to cut quite a swath.

He made his headquarters in the corridor hallway where the twos had set up the one-by-eight on the two stepladders they used for scaffolding, and where Prew was working, first standing on the board, then sitting on it, then kneeling on the floor, washing down swath after swath of the pebbly plaster wall from floor to ceiling.

He was watching the immolation of pockets of reserved fuel, each one blasting past the reformatted hull, burning off swaths of philosopher cells, torching all the information they contained.

Troy pushed through a row of hard, fibrous stems, and suddenly they stared in amazement at a long, low swath of ground-hugging plants, dark green trifoliate leaves with tiny serrated edges, and bright berries.

In the ungrazed pastures swaths of dead stuff caught their feet, and the ground beneath glistened with sweat.

Trained to war, the Bactrian horses cut a swath of death among the enemy, killing and injuring more than Kayan could claim with his sword.

On the balcony of my hotel room I examine those I can closely in the sun, wondering which of the swollen swaths of flesh contain the squirming larvae of the botfly the nun had so kindly warned me about on the flight into Belize.

And legend says that when he reached the verdant valley of the River Coln, he paused on a swath of bottomland which rolled out to meet the wolds like a lush green carpet.

He was still a rake, and what a swath he would cut through the ton with his elegant new dignity and his romantic limp to remind the feather-headed chits of his heroism.

Clarice had covered with a lace cloth and with balms and creams, hairpins and swaths of cloth.