Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swales
Noun
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In mid-April, MMCD staff will be working on foot and in the air across the Twin Cities, looking for trouble spots in marshes and wetlands.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026 -
Movement was more diffuse near wetlands and along the Caloosahatchee River.—
Eve Bohnett,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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New York is built over marshes and creeks and glacial moraines that announce themselves in a storm.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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In mid-April, MMCD staff will be working on foot and in the air across the Twin Cities, looking for trouble spots in marshes and wetlands.—
Ashley Grams,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Hyperia then automatically slews to the target and performs an operation called astrometry – measuring the precise positions of stars to double-check its accuracy.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
26 Jan. 2026
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Explore a white-sand beach and the sinks, swales, and sloughs found within the 2,500-acre Suwannee River Water Management District.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Jan. 2026
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Previously, common people had shared the right to plow open fields, gather firewood, graze animals and cut peat from nearby bogs.—
Will Glovinsky,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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South America fractures into a puzzle of fjords and channels at the southernmost tip of the continent, the Brunswick Peninsula, in Chile’s Magallanes Region, where the future park will protect temperate rainforests, shrublands, and vast carbon-capturing peat bogs.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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All seagrasses descend from a group of flowering plants that includes the arums and water plantains, many of which grow in swamps or along streams.—
David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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The pygmy hippopotamus, once thought to surface in the swamps, is believed to be extinct.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Commoners relied on swamps, fens, forests, and heaths for fuel, gravel, stone, and wood to make tools and to build and repair houses.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Then there’s the cluster of mammoth, blue holding tanks that loom above the surrounding marshlands downstream from Savannah’s historic downtown.—
Adam Van Brimmer,
AJC.com,
20 Mar. 2026
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As the Coast Starlight approaches the Bay Area, the train glides past marshlands, open water, and distant city skylines before continuing toward California’s Central Coast.—
Abby Price,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Mar. 2026
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As with her earlier work, ecotourism will be a crucial component of conserving these feral swamplands and dry tropical forests at the heart of South America.—
The Editors,
Outside,
18 Mar. 2026
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In the 1950s, land reclamation transformed former swamplands and a typhoon shelter into today’s Victoria Park and Causeway Bay.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Feb. 2026
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“Swales.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swales. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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