How to Use swathe in a Sentence

swathe

verb
  • Her neck was swathed in jewels.
  • The nurse swathed the wounded soldier's leg in bandages.
  • Expect each of these to be swathed in pageantry—but not much more than that.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 7 May 2026
  • In the bedrooms, mosquito nets swathed four-poster beds.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Lunar mountains in the south will come into view, swathed in color.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In the center of the room, swathed in shadow, is the faint spectral outline of a small boy.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Designers have swathed the body of the Vision Iconic in black high-gloss paint.
    — Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
  • What better month to hunker down, swathed in a cozy sweater, with a warm drink and a good book in hand, than January?
    — Esme Benjamin, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Celebrities have avalanched their way back to America’s most famous ski area, swathed in their fuzzy coats and après ski chic looks.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Jan. 2026
  • My 485-square-foot Junior Suite was swathed in rich red velvet and hues of chrome and cream.
    — Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 12 June 2026
  • At the height of the Great Depression, a woman onscreen swathed in fur made a statement of both style and wealth.
    — Laurie Brookins, HollywoodReporter, 5 Dec. 2025
  • In this way, the dress only looks like it’s swathed in chainmail, but, by swapping metals for gems, is actually made all the more chic.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The smell of iconic island dishes like loco moco – a hamburger patty atop a pile of rice swathed in gravy – wafts through the air.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • At night in Havana, the stars are often clearly visible as most of the city is swathed in near total darkness.
    — Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • At night in Havana, the stars are often clearly visible as most of the city is swathed in near total darkness.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Cloud 9 also ushers in Moroney’s pink era, with the album’s cover swathed in candy-pink hues.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2025
  • In Riviera romance and cult thriller La Piscine, swathed in Courréges swimwear, her cheeks are rosy and her lips are lush and pouty.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2025
  • A couple are done up in neutral color palettes, while one is swathed in a rosy hue and another sports a palm-print wallpaper accent wall behind the bed.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Sega Bodega) have created with their Arabic shoegaze duo is one swathed in chic esotericism and slow-burning eros.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 1 June 2026
  • Come fall and winter, this will become a crackling fireside ritual, and instead of cheesecake, we’ll be swathed in flannel and longing for spiked hot chocolate.
    — Jennifer Leigh Parker, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Peep swathed-in-suede shoulder bags here, as well as commuter totes, crossbodies, and stylish top-handle satchels that align with fall 2025 trends peeped on runways.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Consider swathing the ceiling with wallpaper, splashing it with an unexpected paint color, or adding unique crown molding details to draw the eye upwards.
    — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
  • There’s a note of self-congratulation running through this work too — tricky to pinpoint because it comes swathed in both twee humility and real suffering.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Others crowded into undersupplied hospitals that had only makeshift bandages to swathe their wounds and no anesthesia for their surgeries.
    — Samer Sinijlawi, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The angled beams and canopies are as aerodynamically sculpted and swathed in supple skin as a fleet of custom Mercedes-Benzes.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The piece balances proportions perfectly while being swathed in 18-karat rose gold and being set with 30 or so brilliant-cut diamonds.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Even her announcement for the birth of her first daughter, Rocki Irish Mayers, saw Rih and Rocki swathed in bright pink bows.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Each expansive residential-style suite (many boasting private terraces, some with plunge pools) includes a bathroom swathed in seafoam Brazilian quartzite and marble.
    — Julie Vadnal, Architectural Digest, 21 Apr. 2026
  • No place personifies this quirky little beach town better than The Red Bar, a bohemian hangout swathed in scarlet lights that’s known for its crab cakes and in-house jazz band.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 June 2026
  • With dark wood floors, vintage furnishings swathed in velvet, and distressed leather headboards, the room feels almost more English country house than downtown Manhattan.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2026

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