'swaths' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an alternate spelling of swathe and can be used as a verb or noun. As a verb, it means to wrap or envelop something. As a noun, it means a long narrow strip or a large amount. Example sentence: The farmer swathed the hay in the field.
In Germany alone, where large swaths of the country, from Bavaria to Saxony, are underwater after two weeks of solid rain, an estimated 50,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.
The country boosted security on its 500-mile border with Iraq in July, deploying thousands of troops to back up border guards after the jihadis captured Mosul, seized swaths of territory including Anbar province, and announced a caliphate straddling the border with Syria.
Not content with sampling iconic buildings, some developers are duplicating swaths of cities.
Across China, similar cases of over-speculation and out-of-pocket spending by local leadership – often to boost political achievement – have marred economic prospects, and created swaths of "ghost towns".
Swaths of the semi-rural township and pastoral environs have been bulldozed, flattened, rezoned, redeveloped, and covered with "people farms".
There are, without doubt, great swaths of medical care in which the providers should be motivated by the public-sector ethos rather than by the incentives of commercial enterprise.
But it gets harder to ignore Hopkins and many like her every year when the Office for National Statistics releases its annual statistics on sick leave, prompting huge swaths of negative comments about public sector staff.
The Tory plans to repeal the HRA, together with the restricted access to our courts already brought about by the restriction on judicial review introduced by Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, will silence the vulnerable and leave great swaths of executive action unchecked and unaccountable.
It criminalises swaths of society, fills prisons with non-violent offenders, facilitates the creation and enrichment of violent gangs, forces those who use drugs to use adulterated, dangerous products, brings the law into disrepute, and costs vast amounts of money that could be put to better uses.
In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
After being pushed from the city last year, the militants retreated to the nearby Sambisa forest, from where they launched attacks on villages and towns in the region, taking over swaths of territory.
