Sentence examples for a swath that from inspiring English sources

But nine of the 12 states I've never visited lie in a swath that bisects the country from the Gulf of Mexico to the Manitoba border.

Forecasters warned that more tornadoes from the violent storm system were possible before the day was over across a swath that stretched hundreds of miles from southern Texas to northern Michigan.

Rather, they say, a de facto split of Syria is hardening with the government slowly shrinking the area it tries to fully control, a swath that runs from Damascus north along the more-populated western half of the country to Latakia, the ancestral province of President Bashar al-Assad.

The area from 14th to 23rd Streets, between Seventh Avenue and Broadway -- a swath that includes chunks of Chelsea, the Flatiron district and Union Square -- has both the highest end and greatest variety of specialized gyms, she said, noting that "every boutique fitness studio wants to be there, or expand there".

Mr. Foster defeated James D. Oberweis, a dairy company owner, in a contest for the 14th Congressional district, a long swath that runs from the far western suburbs of Chicago nearly to the state's Iowa border.

By the time they are through, they've cut a wide swath that covers most of the issues of the working class.

Radiocaesium has been found in all of Japan's prefectures, but is most highly concentrated within an oblong swath that extends about 50km north-west of the plant, and to a lesser extent throughout eastern and central Fukushima Prefecture.

Those traditions can be savored in the Cane River National Heritage Area, the heart of which is a 35-mile swath that starts in Natchitoches (pronounced NACK-ah-tish) and runs southeast along both sides of Cane River Lake.

Typhoon Bess cut threw a 400 km swath that included the most populated portion of Japan.

Turning south off Route 35 onto Bedford Road, one soon encounters a broad, tree-lined swath that is part of a historic district listed since 1983 on the State and National Registers of Historic Places.

He says nice things about Snooki one day, and the next a tape surfaces in which he says nasty things about 47percentt of Americans, a large swath that undoubtedly includes both Republicans and Democrats.