1
: a band used in swathing
2
: an enveloping medium
swathed; swathing
1
: to bind, wrap, or swaddle with or as if with a bandage
2
: envelop
a mountain swathed by clouds
Examples of swathe in a Sentence
Verb
The nurse swathed the wounded soldier's leg in bandages.
Her neck was swathed in jewels.
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Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Sacks spends her alone time in the spa-like bathroom, which Miller swathed in a saturated cobalt from Backdrop.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 5 June 2025
The trim in this tidy entryway is coated in Farrow & Ball’s French Gray (No. 18), and the walls are swathed in Benjamin Moore’s Simply White (OC-117).
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Suede: Nike and adidas, as well as other major shoe brands, commonly use suede overlays to spice up their white sneakers’ uppers — but there are also certain styles whose profiles are almost fully swathed in suede, like the spanking-new sneaker mule from Larroudé.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
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Verb
The French-Caribbean design by Gilles & Boissier makes every environment appear as if it’s swathed in the golden glow of a Clarendon filter, with natural shutters and fabrics, light wood and stone.
—Melinda Sheckells, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
Sacks spends her alone time in the spa-like bathroom, which Miller swathed in a saturated cobalt from Backdrop.
—Morgan Goldberg, Architectural Digest, 5 June 2025
The trim in this tidy entryway is coated in Farrow & Ball’s French Gray (No. 18), and the walls are swathed in Benjamin Moore’s Simply White (OC-117).
—Katie Akin, Southern Living, 27 Apr. 2025
Suede: Nike and adidas, as well as other major shoe brands, commonly use suede overlays to spice up their white sneakers’ uppers — but there are also certain styles whose profiles are almost fully swathed in suede, like the spanking-new sneaker mule from Larroudé.
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 25 June 2025
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“Swathe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swathe. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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