MBNA has told some of these groups that it is switching only small swaths of their members whose accounts it considers to be inactive.

Secca had to swallow hard as her eyes took in the small swath of devastation.

The state Department of Environmental Protection will retain ownership of a small swath of property from the sea wall to the water.

Creeping through the streets at 5 miles per hour, his plow reclaimed small swaths of territory from Mother Nature.

Jordan fought within himself and craned his neck up, looking for small swaths of starlight overhead instead of straining to make out the logs and stones underfoot.

In 1990 they made up more than 50 percent of the population in a small swath of Port Chester.

I could see only a small swath of the protest from this angle.

But the face-saving amendment would allow only a small swath of cases to remain in state courts, based on a strange formula that has the makings of a litigation nightmare.

Four National Franchises The Canadian Communications Department said it would allocate a small swath of frequencies near those now used by ordinary cellular telephones.

To look farther down, ships tow underwater platforms of instruments - but that tends to occur only every few months or years, and only in small swaths of the ocean.