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.
They were Islamic terrorists promoting the secession of this remote southern swath of Serbia.
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."
In this spirit, the lead paragraph of the Journal's earthquake article merits quoting in full: "A powerful 45-second earthquake cut a swath through Turkey's industrial heartland, killing thousands of people, shutting businesses, wrecking major power lines and jolting national confidence just as the economy showed signs of leaving 1999's recession behind."
She, too, believes that women's understandings are naturally (biologically) bounded by their own limited experiences and bodies, and that feminism must therefore focus only on that narrow swath dictated by such bodies.