strewed

Example Sentences

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Strewed everywhere were years’ worth of unopened letters and parcels.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Strewed with garbage bags and clothes and festering objects of dubious identity, this is the Dublin residence of someone who, as your mother might observe, has never been taught to pick up after himself.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2013

I laid her softly in a silken bed, Strewed fragrant violets about her head And left her.

From Songs of Womanhood by Alma-Tadema, Laurence

Dear friend, no more upon that lonely mound, Strewed with the red and yellow autumn leaf, Drop thou the tear, but raise the fainting eye Beyond the autumn mists of earthly grief.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Thus being entred, they behold arownd A large and spacious plaine, on every side Strewed with pleasauns, whose fayre grassy grownd Mantled with greene, and goodly beautifide With all the ornaments of Floraes pride.

From Cathedrals of Spain by John A.