| Then, in a remarkable burst of rail building energy, engineers began cutting straight swaths across the lay of the land. |
| With horizontal swaths of greens and umber on their lower portions and lightening shades of blue at the top, the paintings suggest landscapes. |
| Sea-level rise could cause the disappearance of vast swaths of this region, and along with them species such as the famed Bengal tiger. |
| On a thin-crust pizza, the Italian ham lies on top of basil tomato sauce and beneath salty Gaeta olives and swaths of mild asiago. |
| Ferns are especially handsome as accents among swaths of lower-growing plants such as sweet woodruff or oxalis or growing beside ponds. |
| The Kurds in the north, the Sunni Arabs north and west of Baghdad, and the Shiite Arabs of the south and center inhabit vast swaths of territory. |
