swathe

a significant swathe of popular opinion.

vast swathes of countryside.

The new road cut a swathe through the countryside.

His head was swathed in bandages.

her leg was swathed in bandages.

a cot swathed in draperies and blue ribbons.

the combine had cut a deep swathe around the border of the fields.

his hands were swathed in bandages.

Aids has cut a swathe through battalions of ordinary people.

A doctor swathed in protective gear checks a patient in Manchuria during the 1910-11 outbreak of pneumatic plague, the last before the discovery of sulpha drugs in 1933.

His armies had cut a swathe through Christian Europe.

Every year, fires ravage more swathes of the rain forest.

But the case by case system leaves large swathes of Americans uncovered.

China's heat waves have blanketed large swathes of the country this year.

Huge swathes of land, farms and towns, remain underwater.

Now, gentlemen, frankly, this Department has got to cut a great swathe through all this stuffy Whitehall bureaucracy.

They swathed their too much power.

Radar and satellites can cover swathes of land, yet they lack detail.

Whole swathes of the nation seeped in practices aliens of the American occupiers.

Then, in the 1950s, the government nationalised great swathes of forests, presenting further obstacles to their nomadic life.