swathe

Preposition: of

• electorate: The country is full - seems to have struck a chord with a sizeable swathe of a disaffected electorate.
• countryside: A tale of utter devastation which whole swathes of the countryside may never recover from.
• sand: Winter storms can remove great swathes of sand right down to the underlying rock.
• territory: Meanwhile the Marcher lords held great swathes of territory on the borders with Wales.
• forest: Scotland has some of our richest swathes of forest.
• humanity: About to take over whole swathes of fragile humanity.

Converse of object

• cut: Mile End Park cuts a green swathe down the center of the boro.
• encompass: Several European Union funding programs, including ERDF which encompasses a swathe of North East London has relevance to multimedia.
• destroy: Firstly, you can plow into them single-handedly, destroying vast swathes of them in a single sweep of your overpowered sword.
• lose: She wrote that New Labor had lost vast swathes of support from those who put them in office.
• remove: Winter storms can remove great swathes of sand right down to the underlying rock.

Noun used with modifier

• meter: NGC also exaggerates the environmental impact of undergrounding, repeatedly referring to a 15 meter swathe of sterilized land through the countryside.

Adjective modifier

• vast: Compared with coral reefs, vast swathes of the ocean appeared to be devoid of life.
• huge: Germany demanded huge swathes of Russia in return for halting its advance.
• broad: The other units give a broad swathe of ages.
• whole: Allen: There's a whole swathe of useful advice I could offer.
• large: You're not allowed to reserve large swathes of seats.
• wide: Occasionally we saw wide swathes of crushed forest where elephants had passed through, leaving giant piles of dung.