SWATHE in a Sentence
Learn SWATHE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
20 example sentences for SWATHE, such as:
1. The spruces swathed them in blackness and silence.
2. The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
3. Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
4. Mr. D'Arcy stood swathing his neck carefully and frowning.
5. The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
2. The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
3. Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
4. Mr. D'Arcy stood swathing his neck carefully and frowning.
5. The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
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Meanings and Examples of SWATHE
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swathe
v. wrap or bind with or as if with bandages
Classic Sentence:
1 Nevertheless, this had forced him to swathe his hand in a linen bandage, and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing.
2 But as my aunt had swathed me up, I made no complaint of being inconvenienced.
3 And he bent his long legs, swathed in tight riding breeches, and sat down in the chair, too low for him, so that his knees were cramped up in a sharp angle.
4 Mr. D'Arcy came from the pantry, fully swathed and buttoned, and in a repentant tone told them the history of his cold.
5 Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.
6 The spruces swathed them in blackness and silence.
7 Standing in the window we saw that his left hand was swathed in a bandage and that his face was very grim and pale.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
Context Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty
8 That is to say, she was now wearing a gown of some dark colour, and lacked her nightcap, and had swathed her neck in something stiff.
9 Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist.
10 In a swath eighty miles wide the Yankees were looting and burning.
11 Mr. D'Arcy stood swathing his neck carefully and frowning.
Example Sentence:
1 The bomb had left a swathe of the town centre in ruins.
2 The combine had cut a swathe around the edge of the field.
3 Building the tunnel would involve cutting a great swathe through the forest.
4 These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.
5 When I visited him in the hospital, I saw nurses swathe him with bandages.
6 Beginning on Monday, seasonal monsoon rains stalled over a swath of Colorado's urban corridor, extending from near the Wyoming border to Colorado Springs, some 130 miles to the south.
7 Development has affected vast swathes of our countryside.
8 Huge swathes of rain forest are being cleared for farming and mining.
9 But thanks to the flaw the IT security researchers found, in many instances the way the encryption has been implemented on the server side across large swathes of the internet has been flawed.