Sentences with 'swathes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word swathes and other words derived from it.
• « The Umayyads' biggest problem was the size of their empire. Like other rapid conquests, such as that of Alexander the Great 1,000 years earlier, in the course of only a few decades a people found themselves in control of huge swathes of territory. »
• « World War I devastated huge swathes of territory and left the economies of the Western world crippled or reeling. To make matters worse, the war completely failed to solve the problems that had caused it. »
• « World War II was the defining disaster of the 20th century for millions of people around the world. It was the culmination of the vision of total war that the world had first encountered in the First World War, but it spread to vast swathes of the globe, not just parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. »