- past participle of bestrew.
bestrewn
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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017
What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from Calais on board.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens
So we resumed our harness and departed; not, however, before a huge cairn had been built out of the blocks of gneiss with which the summit is bestrewn.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
The bottom of this strange valley was nearly level, and well grown with tall forest trees and undergrowth; not so thick, however, but that there were grassy open spaces, bestrewn with large rocks and boulders.
From The Induna's Wife by Bertram Mitford
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