Swathe

Definition

swathe /sweÇð/ (also swath /swɒθ/) n အခင္း။ အျပင္။ တစ္ခြင္ တစ္ျပင္။ a swathe of daffodils/ forest. v ~ sb/ sth (in sth) စည္းသည္။ ထုပ္သည္။ Thick bandages swathed his head. ❍ They were swathed in scarves and sweaters. ❍ ( fig ) The city lay swathed in fog. ၿမိဳ႕ကို ျမဴခိုးမ်ားက ရစ္သိုင္းလ်က္ရိွသည္။ ❏ cut a swathe through sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ခုတ္ထြင္သည္။ ၿဖိဳလွဲသည္။ The new road cut a swathe through the countryside. ❍ Aids has already cut a swathe through New York's artistic community. ၂။ ေငးၾကည့္ရေလာက္ ေအာင္ ထင္ေပၚသည္။ cut a swathe through society.

Examples

1. ‘As we made our way to Minj
2. emerald green tea plantations and broad swaths of coffee trees revealed evidence of foreign development.’
3. ‘Planting of cork oak
4. fig and magnolia grandiflora
5. for example
6. will contribute bold structure and varied foliage
7. while colour will be provided by broad swathes of woodland perennials.’
8. ‘The ideological objection to legalisation is ugly and simple
9. and touches broader swathes of the world.’
10. ‘Huge swathes of the area were masked under a pall of white smoke and a strong smell hung in the air.’
11. ‘But yesterday
12. red-faced officials admitted whole swathes were lifted word for word grammatical slips and all from a student thesis.’
13. ‘In 164 photographs
14. taken during a trip from the coast inland
15. he examines the results of generations of logging that have left swaths of barren landscape where lush rain forests once grew.’
16. ‘Broad swathes of China's industrial heartland are now chronically short of electricity.’
17. ‘Well we must wait to see the reaction to Space for Nature
18. especially as the project aims to expand and purchase large swaths of valuable forested areas in South Bohemia and Moravia.’
19. ‘In contrast
20. only modest efforts are now underway in the industry as a whole to integrate broad swaths of the enterprise.’
21. ‘A few areas cut across disciplines and require particularly broad
22. horizontal swaths of expertise.’
23. ‘It reserved special scorn for the General Mining Law of 1872
24. which has handed over huge swaths of public land to miners since it was instituted.’
25. ‘Even if the refuge is protected
26. which looks likely
27. the energy bill still could still open vast swaths of other public lands to for-profit exploitation.’
28. ‘In the fall of 2003
29. U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq.’
30. ‘The mass media provided the means to promote those brands: television and radio networks
31. magazines
32. and newspapers that reached vast swaths of the public simply and efficiently.’
33. ‘Broad swaths of asphalt also fragment wildlife habitat and block migration corridors - and will eventually threaten populations isolated from food sources and potential mates.’
34. ‘Morganton's struggles are playing out not just across many other parts of North Carolina but also through swaths of the American heartland.’
35. ‘Beginning in August
36. Florida was flattened by four successive hurricanes that ripped up broad swaths of the state.’
37. ‘Because of the willful collective historical and moral ignorance of vast swaths of the public and the opinion leaders who influence them.’
38. ‘‘It looks bad
39. ’ she said
40. noting that huge swaths of the park appear to have been deforested.’
41. ‘Raw materials were brought to the city from across the huge swathe of Northern England under Viking control in the 10th century.’