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A large section of the building facade is missing along its roofline, with rubble strew across the road below.

From BBC ● May 1, 2023

The only sign that the damaged building is not abandoned are the bunches of freshly cut, fragrant grass that worshipers traditionally strew in places of worship.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 2023

Disturbed by statistics on Italian emigration that swelled to 84,000 in 1884 alone, Scalabrini wrote that the mass emigration and separation of families would “help strew white the lands of America with their bones.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

Breaking waves strew driftwood along beaches reached by hiking trails that require consulting a tide chart.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

So I offered to fetch fresh lavender to strew in Gertrude’s bedchamber, and that night I knelt again on the ground, gathering the silvery, purple-tipped fronds of lavender into my arms.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Then junior year comes along and strews the floor with trip wires that forces entire families to navigate them all in a fog of perpetual exhaustion and hastily prepared and erratically timed meals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Liontas strews her own prose with aborted explanations: “Litza knew not to suggest that they drive together, so.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2015

She strews italics across almost every page, to denote both direct quotation and poetic emphasis, and you’re sometimes confused about which she intends.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2011

In Act 2, rubble from the wrecked proscenium strews the stage, the remnants of the Minstrels' Hall in the Wartburg castle, where Tannhaeuser takes part in a song contest.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2010

The chaos of ancient walrus bones which strews the stony beach reminds one of nothing so forcibly as the stacks of bleaching buffalo bones which disgrace the prairies.

From Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

She then gives viewers a brief tour of her home, showing books everywhere — on shelves, in overflow piles here and there, and strewed across the bed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

Elvis' actual house is smaller than you'd think and kinda gives off grandpa vibes with the overly carpeted rooms and hallways, and bric-a-brac strewed about.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023

The stage: just a shelf strewed with rubble.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2022

“He left the field strewed with Army tacklers who had a shot at him and came up empty-handed,” sports columnist Shirley Povich wrote in The Post.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2019

Lavinia’s room; and strewed about it things he had never seen before—stays, kerchiefs, patchboxes, ribbons, fripperies.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

The speech was strewn with falsehoods that must have appalled even sympathetic listeners in the chamber.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Homendy said she walked the path of destruction, seeing the tire marks cut through the grass outside the runway—and navigation equipment, air bags and fencing strewn over the area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

"You can find used pads strewn around all the bathrooms."

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

The dogs’ sleeping quarters are modeled after the park’s Pirates of the Caribbean ride, with its fort-like corridors made of sun-dried brick, the walls strewn with overgrown jungle vines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Mushroom corpses were strewn everywhere: some crumbled, some smashed, some perfectly, cruelly intact but for their severed stems.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The Hercules aircraft went down shortly after departure from Puerto Leguizamo, near the southern border with Ecuador, strewing burning wreckage on the jungle floor.

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026

The storm brought fierce winds and drove surging seawater miles inland, strewing the area with fallen trees, power lines and debris.

From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023

For those who adhere to the Catholic faith, the strewing about of the eucharist was nearly as sacrilegious as the burglary of its receptacle, a diocese spokeswoman said.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2022

The most bizarre tactic involves dismantling a black feather boa and strewing the loose feathers about to simulate a crow casualty.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2022

Suddenly a blast of shot ripped through the bottom of the can, blowing the lid off and strewing the contents all over the old dog.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford