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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of swathe.

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Examples

  • He marked the year with an arm-spanning tattoo of a "skulltopus", a grinning skull swathed in vibrant tentacles, an image developed as a homage to the different traditions of the weird and fantastic from which his imagination springs.

    A life in writing: China Miéville 2011

  • I would not be tearing down the mountain bike park swathed in padding like a football player.

    Margie Goldsmith: Grouse Grind And Other Adventures In B.C. Margie Goldsmith 2011

  • But Mrs. Livingston cannot hide her disgust at the sight of this young woman with the dark bobbed hair, her trim body swathed in a fine fur coat.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Carefully unwrapping the carvings, swathed in pieces of old linen, he began to tell me their history.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Those seated at the tables swathed in scarlet received tall stemmed glasses of dark fluid.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • She balanced her public appearances with rest, swathed in a floral wrap and cocooned in a damask bedspread.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Photos apparently taken from the propeller plane that transported Seif al-Islam from the desert showed him swathed in the tan-colored robes and headdress of southern Libyan tribes.

    Gadhafi's Son Is Captured in Libya Margaret Coker 2011

  • Beneath the coverall, the CNN anchor was swathed in a bright, handpainted silk chiffon gown.

    Toasts to Theater, Trophies Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The final passages of reconciliation are swathed in soothing, mock-baroque music.

    The Tempest - review 2011

  • He swathed his own bedroom in the stuff and used it for multiple clients' homes as well, earning him the title "the prince of gray flannel."

    Highly Suitable Fabric Stephen Treffinger 2011

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