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Example sentences for: swath

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Carrer Argenteria, once the avenue to the sea from the Royal Palace, cuts a diagonal swath from Plaça de l’Angel to the church.
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."
Now it seems that the disease has cut a swath through a much broader sector of the population, and no longer requires testosterone poisoning as a condition of entry.
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?
They were Islamic terrorists promoting the secession of this remote southern swath of Serbia.