Sherman started from Atlanta in the middle of November. He cut a wide swath of desolation through the South.

Swinging his bloody horns from side to side the beast cut a wide swath before him.

The twister cut a wide swath of destruction in Utica, a town of 2,000 people about 90 miles southwest of Chicago.

Girls who like to cut a wide swath ought to come out to China, for they will have enough flattery and attention to turn their heads.

During the two years that he [the Count] cut a wide swath in the city [Berlin] his name was constantly associated with that of some dancer, actress or other woman whose notoriety drew more attention than her talent.

The company certainly cut a wide swath in a conservative industry.

With his signature red beret and class-based rhetoric, president Hugo Chavez has cut a wide swath through this oil-rich but impoverished nation.

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