I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms. From LearnThat.org. [Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American philosopher and naturalist, writer.]
Through Tonight: The evening's looking pretty pleasant as the main swath of cloudiness holds off until after sunset. From Wordnik.com. [PM Update: Nice now, stormy later] Reference
The Michoud Assembly Facility east of New Orleans and the Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., both were located along the main swath of the storm's devastation. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives] Reference
GRACE: Jim, how large of a swath is the Gulf Coast going to take the hit?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference
He said, usually you see some kind of swath if there's been a tornado. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2005] Reference
The "swath" she is winning may be the racially intolerant white voters. liar, liar, pants on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Schneider: Obama not a satisfying choice for KY Democrats] Reference
First the reapers were shown, swaying as they walked along, each one cutting his "swath," or path, through the standing grain. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays] Reference
I had a great time, but I know I only saw a tiny "swath" of what was going on over the weekend, and some of the other 77,000 fans who attended have been reporting back as well. From Wordnik.com. [The Word (and pictures) from New York Comic Con] Reference
Martin swath, meaning residents should avoid low-lying, flood prone areas. From Wordnik.com. [theadvertiser.com -] Reference
Commodore Matt Decker wasn’t entirely certain what to call the swath of fuzz that currently adorned the lower half of his face. From Wordnik.com. [Harbinger] Reference
Chia Chia swipes a thick swath of glistening pink lipstick across her lower lip. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Minutes Of Fame] Reference
Using music and dance as his window, he illuminates a huge swath of Castro's Cuba. From Wordnik.com. [DANCING FOR THEIR LIVES] Reference
It's an odd combination: the most conservative society and a vast swath of modernists. From Wordnik.com. [THE SAUDI TRAP] Reference
In Italy and France, crusading judges have cut a swath through the ranks of politicians. From Wordnik.com. [Corruption] Reference
For a growing swath of people -- in numbers, age and girth -- scooting is the new walking. From Wordnik.com. [It's the New Walking] Reference
There is another great swath of voters in the country, however: the "soft environmentalists.". From Wordnik.com. [After The First Hundred Days...] Reference
Across this quiet swath of northern France the English are snapping up properties by the score. From Wordnik.com. [Here Come The Brits] Reference
(This was the night that deadly tornadoes ripped through a swath of mid-America, from Ohio to Alabama). From Wordnik.com. [My Trip From Hell] Reference
Omar's complex of "guest houses" still sit intact amidst a wide swath of rubble and broken, crumbling walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Scene In Kandahar] Reference
A considerable swath of Texas land, perhaps as much as a half-million acres, will be taken by eminent domain. From Wordnik.com. [Highway To Hell?] Reference
Denver International rises, pyramidlike, on a 53-square-mile swath of wind-swept prairie northeast of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Still Late For Arrival] Reference
With a Constitution, it has new powers over an immense swath of territory -- yet little agreement on how to wield them. From Wordnik.com. [MUDDLING THROUGH, TAKE 2] Reference
Snow and debris packed 10 meters deep cut a swath through the village; no one knew how many people were be trapped below. From Wordnik.com. [Death In The Alps] Reference
He cut a swath through the area in the 1950s as the commander of a unit charged with crushing a nascent Palestinian insurgency. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye Gaza] Reference
It took Hurricane Andrew only hours to cut its devastating swath through the Southeast, leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew's Wrath] Reference
For a large swath of history, China's education system was a glorious anomaly: in a world defined by class, it was built on merit. From Wordnik.com. [Diplomas For Dollars] Reference
And Howard Fineman masterfully explains the roots of President Bush's sympathy with the swath of America that's drawn to "Left Behind.". From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
Janzen conceived the original plan six years ago to carry out a first-ever all-species inventory in a rich swath of rain forest in Costa Rica. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Hidden Life] Reference
These days Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan makes policy not only for the United States but for a growing swath of Latin America as well. From Wordnik.com. [Color My Money Green] Reference
At a highway toll booth outside Tokaimura, workers hung a swath of brown paper bearing a notice that said: YOU ARE WITHIN 10 KILOMETERS OF A RADIATION LEAK. From Wordnik.com. [Can It Happen Here?] Reference
Stormont, the traditional seat of government in Northern Ireland, is an imposing white building that commands a swath of green parkland on the outskirts of Belfast. From Wordnik.com. [Parking A Peace Process] Reference
This bleak, muddy road cuts down the middle of the Zone of Separation (zos), a garbage-strewn, trench-pocked 1. 2-mile swath of no man's land between Serbs and Muslims. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Gonna Be A Long Year'] Reference
Abby fails to see the vast swath of middle ground between buttoning up to the top button and donning vibrating black-lace panties, which she does meekly at Mike's command. From Wordnik.com. [Why Is Katherine Heigl So Annoying?] Reference
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