6 sentences with 'swathe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word swathe and other words derived from it.
• « From about 700 BCE, the Spartans conquered a large swathe of territory in their home region of Greece, the southern Greek peninsula called the Peloponnese. »
• « Pyrrhus was a Hellenistic king who had already wrested control of a good swathe of Greece from the Antigonid dynasty in Greece. »
• « One group, the Vandals, made their way into the Roman provinces of Spain and seized a large swathe of territory there. »
• « Monasteries sprang up, from which monks moved further into the Slavic lands, eventually uniting a swathe of territory in what would one day become Russia. »
• « Suleiman conquered territories in southeastern Europe, including all of Hungary, and finally laid siege to the Habsburg capital, Vienna, in 1529. Although the siege failed, the empire now occupied a huge swathe of Europe. »