: a low-lying or depressed and often wet stretch of land
also
: a shallow depression on a golf course
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There, a swale known as Bobby Locke’s Hollow offers a bailout option for those steering clear of the ravine.
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Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Similar swales can be found in Onion Creek Metropolitan Park.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Now, scientists have a list of 35 swales across Delaware, Maryland and Virginia where the firefly lives.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The world looks clean and new and fresh outside with tall purple irises blanketing the swales and the fringes of the shore and azaleas like banks of rose flames along the roadsides and the fresh new lime tongues of cottonwood leaves fluttering like a cool green stream at the edges of the clearings.
—Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
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Jeff Goudy, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Similar swales can be found in Onion Creek Metropolitan Park.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Now, scientists have a list of 35 swales across Delaware, Maryland and Virginia where the firefly lives.
—Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
The world looks clean and new and fresh outside with tall purple irises blanketing the swales and the fringes of the shore and azaleas like banks of rose flames along the roadsides and the fresh new lime tongues of cottonwood leaves fluttering like a cool green stream at the edges of the clearings.
—Robert Finch
june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
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“Swale.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swale. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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