Definition of "swathes" [swathes]

• Plural form of swathe. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swathe. (verb)

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• ""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."
• "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."
• "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."