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. These people represent a broad/wide swathe of public opinion.

4. The storm cut a swathe through the village.

5. The mountains rose above a swathe of thick cloud.

6. We cut a swathe through the dense undergrowth.

7. A swathe of sunlight lay across the floor.

8. A series of bribery scandals has cut a swathe through the government.

9. Building the tunnel would involve cutting a great swathe through the forest.

10. Unemployment is cutting a wide swathe through the West.

11. Doomsday cuts a swathe across the States and takes on Superman in a clash of the titans.

12. He took out his knife and cut a swathe to the hollow.

13. The industrial age cut its own swathe across the island, and deeply cut marble and copper quarries scar many hillsides.

14. They cut a swathe through the massed black-clad warriors, and then turning swiftly trampled back over their disorganized ranks.

15. The village was lit by a swathe of sunlight which cut through the morning mist.

16. There was a new swathe of light among the stars.

17. The storm cut a swathe through the forest.

18. The storm cut a swathe through southern England.

19. A huge swathe of Dantewada, where no roads penetrate the forest,(http:///swathe.html) remains outside the government's control.

20. Outside the city a swathe of farmland the size of Portugal has been destroyed.

21. Fierce internal rows , plus a swathe of corruption scandals, led to the dismissal of the government.

22. This time the front door was open and a swathe of sunlight lay across the red-tiled floor.

23. The original payoff for building the railway was a swathe of the adjoining land.

24. Just inside the entrance proper, the sea slices a vicious swathe inland, describing almost a half-circle.

25. I went back to the States and was going to cut my swathe in society in Washington.

26. Feeling was dead set against the idea of a new road cutting a swathe through the countryside.

27. It was like a smile, it was like a little Eden of thoughtful pleasure: a swathe of allotments.

28. Only the water itself, its wildly fluctuating level carving a swathe of devastation along the shore, betrays the deception.

29. FLOODWATERS have lain waste to an almost unbelievably large swathe of Pakistan.

30. Bill tried to show off and cut a big swathe with Ann.

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.

31. We fired together and cut a swathe in the lines of enemey soldiers.

32. Keegan's team have been cutting an irresistible swathe through the first division.

33. His mother in the house looked out of and swathe two get closer and closer.

34. The credit crunch is a swathe through the US financial sector.

35. On May 1st the army took over another swathe of territory.

36. Torrential rain and a howling tempest cut a swathe of destruction across the country.

37. The farmer cut a swathe in the field with his scythe.

38. They wanted the president to "demilitarise" a swathe of territory to allow talks.