Swath in example sentence

By flooding a large swath of land, the project displaced many subsistence farmers and fishermen, fueling a popular backlash that contributed to the end of a 17-year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and government forces.

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We moved on to a large swath of sky with a tear down the middle, and through the tear, you could see deep parts of the cosmos.

I think there was a huge swath of the population that feels like Washington never listens to them, you know, a good part of the middle of America, not just the coasts, and he was somebody they felt was listening to their concerns.

But you have a huge swath of voters, myself included, who are registered independents, like 40 percent of us, right?

And the resources we use are not this two-dimensional swath of land that we have.

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