swathe

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• America’s small business community is recovering from the pandemic, but large swathes of it haven’t yet recovered.

• Plus, unlike a lot of other campgrounds, you won’t be crowded among other campers—each site gets its own swathe of wilderness to itself.

• It may make it harder for the developer to purchase the plot, Graulau says, but it’s not a guarantee that the swathe of land that has given her neighborhood coastal access for generations won’t end up being built into condos for newcomers.

• As well as enabling researchers to tackle a broad swathe of new questions in neuroscience, the authors hope the device could eventually help restore the independence of people suffering from paralysis.

• These are innovations that can be applied to broad swathes of the economy and can have profound impacts on society.

• Here and there a swathe of mist lay on the plains below; but up on the hills all was comparatively clear.

• As the distension of the belly had been very great, a swathe was applied, and drawn gradually tighter as the water was evacuated.

• Like Tristan, they hate the day as the destroyer of poetry, and swathe themselves in the trembling chiaroscuro of twilight.

• "He said it made the swathe better there than any where else," they reply.

• Sometimes his wives caress his body, ply him with delicacies or swathe him in perfumed garments.