Words similar to swath

Example sentences for: swath

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So all the policy is doing, it seems, if he is correct, is successfully flushing out a whole swath of young men and women who have the self-respect not to be ashamed of being gay.
Both papers note that even before this decision, the new law has produced a much more active deportation rate, and so even though the decision doesn't have that much direct impact because comparatively few illegal immigrants claim political persecution, it may still cut a rather wide swath, because in the words of the Post , it has "great potential to intimidate immigrants and make them wary of speaking out about any political matter for fear of drawing attention to their illegal status."
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.
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.