Swathes

"Button", a gem mid-album, is all metallic robot-as-real-boy fantasy, not as twee as you initially think, with an intricately-layered atonal background that gradually rises in short swathes to interrupt the '60s sun. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You should also include the W3C’s Contact schema, which has been around for almost eight years and is used in swathes of Semantic Web data. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Also, there is now an average of 38 people in these urban areas for every 100 in the vast rural swathes, which is a 16\% increase in relative vote share. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He started a Rainforests Project which may have saved great swathes of the rainforest in Guyana; he runs a farm on the sustainable model he recommends; and he has started, and is patron of, a number of related charities. ❋ Christina Patterson (2010)

Suicide bombing therefore is fundamentally immoral against the actions acceptable to wide swathes of humanity, irrespective of faith compass. ❋ MD Qanta Ahmed (2011)

The destruction of whole villages, twelfth century churches, the peace of great swathes of London, the sight of elderly ladies bundled into police vans: it will change the way people think. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To the degree that some aspects of the Tea Party think that large swathes of what the government does is unconstitutional or, you know, think that Congress 'actions under the Commerce Clause have, you know, have usurped powers correctly reserved to the states, I don't think John Boehner subscribes to that at all. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By some mental slight of mind, that end has been transmuted into restricting their presence and influence so that they do not have stable control over large swathes of territory. ❋ Michael Brenner (2010)

Instantly elevated to ‘partner agency’ status with their own agenda of targets and contradicting policies, I predict swathes of e-mails demanding information, contact, enquiries to be ‘expedited’. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Borders also would cut swathes of its 19,500 staff as it attempts to reinvent itself to compete with Amazon and its hot-selling Kindle reader, and Barnes & Noble Inc., the nation's largest bookstore chain and maker of the Nook e-reader. ❋ Mike Spector (2011)

Mr. PURDUM: Well, he certainly - I think he wants to radically reconceive the mission of government, and he thinks that great swathes of what the government has come to do over the 20th century it has no business doing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Among the 26 pieces on display, two materials predominate: Mr. Morellet's beloved neon tubes and swathes of easily removable black scotch tape. ❋ Tobias Grey (2011)

The assault in Zawiya underscores the military challenges that the government will have in regaining control of vast swathes of territory now under rebel control around the capital as well as the east: how to forcibly take control of areas that are heavily populated and resistant to government rule. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

[She is] [such a] swathe!! ❋ Unknow Guy (2015)

[Mary] [stole] my [sub sandwich], what a dirty swath ❋ Themaninthesuit (2007)

Those [swathes] always [squat] while they shit, there a real bunch of swathes if you know what i mean. or We used to cut those swathes down like thick grass in [the corn] fields. ❋ Van Hellsing (2022)

[Joel] [smoked] some weed and has been [swathing] for the past hour ❋ Kmactodeath (2011)

That [lady], [pooted] right next to me. I was swathing her [farts all day]. ❋ Ace Madea (2019)

During lunch I was [counting] the number of times [I breathed], now I have a large [swath of data] to work with ❋ Bank Of America2 (2011)

Bob grew up in [DC] & cut a [wide swath] with women of loose [morals]. ❋ Storm_84 (2017)

[Tucker]: *playing Warzone with the boys* Boys: “Tuck, where’d you go? Did you mute your [coms] again?!” Tucker: *wraps his wiener in [Pillsbury] Biscuits* Tucker: “My bad, the wife was tired of me ignoring her, so I showed her my Swathing Biscuit” ❋ WhoreZone (2022)