What is "swatch"

Usage examples of "swatch".

Here and there, as a mastodont stirred, snow fell away, revealing a swatch of red-black hair, a questing trunk or a peering eye.

He gazed about the black streaming crags, the slopes between them covered with coarse matted grass, yellow viscous cabbages, many of them in a state of slow decay, or raw spewy earth, the dung of seabirds everywhere, and the whole enveloped in drifting swatches of mist or rain.

Her black hair, unbraided, lay in great crinkled swatches over her slim shoulders.

Aft, the pounding engine shone with care and oil, more men using long-nosed cans to squirt oil into joints, others cleaning with swatches of cotton waste, others tending dials and pumps and valves as the engine drove the propeller shaft against the crush of the sea.

Dars and two Cols nodded and set out on a walk that would cover a fair swatch of territory.

Combines scythe circumference swatches, close their noose around holdout corn.

Random items of furniture -- overstuffed easy chairs, end-table lamps, swatches of astroturf, saki cups -- float relaxedly in the gentle air tides that waft through the cells.

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

Meggie was stripped to her petticoat and chemise and stockings, stood upon a small dais, measured, large swatches of material draped over her, from the filmiest silks to the most brilliant and shimmery satins, all with Uncle Douglas looking on, making comments, stroking his jaw, looking like a man in charge of an army, and every soldier in that army was ready to do his bidding.

Escorted by the three looming goondas, Seven followed the portly Englishman into a spacious yet shadowy rotunda lit only by swatches of sunlight that fell from the fractured dome high above onto the bare stone floor.

They sat and talked about it for an hour, looking at fabric swatches, and discussing the kind of lace Olivia had in mind, while Victoria tried on hats and shoes and ignored them.

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.