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Example sentences for: swath

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The Olympic Peninsula sits perched on the northwest corner of Washington like a small state, an expanse of mountains, rivers, and coastlines wrapped by an arm of the Pacific and separated from the urban swath of Greater Seattle by the inland sea of Puget Sound.
If you have a job like mine, in which a reasonably broad swath of American society presents itself to you without any clothes on, this question no doubt has popped into your head: Why are the poor so fat?
The French connection was to begin in 1682 when René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, claimed for France a huge swath of territory radiating from the Mississippi.
In November, they launched a joint offensive and so far have captured a thousand-mile swath of territory in the East.
With many papers (including the NYT ) already on this bandwagon, how about turning up the heat on another type of advertising that probably cuts as wide a swath through American families--sports handicapping services?