bestrew

Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017

More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2015

Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides.

From Time Magazine Archive

With tulips, pinks, and rosemary, From goodly gardens pluck'd by me, I'll from above bestrew Him.

From Paul Gerhardt's Spiritual Songs Translated by John Kelly by Gerhardt, Paul

The males alone are incurably careless, and will impudently bestrew the surface of the comb with their droppings, which the workers are obliged to sweep as they hasten behind them.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

It is safe to say that Richardson would have delivered a more nuanced movie—his Mahogany would undoubtedly have avoided the camp that bestrews the Gordy version.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2015

So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

From A Hero of Our Time by Wisdom, J. H.

We depart—the only two living beings to be seen in that unreal and miasmal place, that village which bestrews the earth and lies under our feet.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017

Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015

Not only was Flappy Bird by far the No. 1 free app on both the iPhone and Android app stores, but blatant rip-offs like Flappy Plane, Fly Birdie, and Ironpants bestrewed the top 50.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2014

At the bottom of “Dows Hill” he stopped, and once more replenished his bag with the rough stones, which liberally bestrewed the pathway, choosing the largest for the purpose.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

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

I like to see the furniture all bestrewn with it, and Deppe himself seated at his table surrounded with piles of manuscript, pen in hand, going over and arranging them, bringing order out of chaos.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry

From this point the way along the shore is wilder and rougher—more bestrewn with slabs and boulders than any we have yet seen.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter

He conveyed the impression that the collection of documents, books, telephones, and other paraphernalia bestrewing his table had reduced him to a state of stupor.

From Dope by Rohmer, Sax

The casement opened, and first appeared a fair hand, which, with a long tapering jug of blue and white Dutch porcelain, was bestrewing water upon the flowers in the little wooden balcony.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

"Thou dost know that the china-packer comes early to-morrow morn, and that e'en now the barrels and boxes and excelsior are bestrewing the dining room?"

From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

More perilous even than these animals, to the wanderer in the forest, are the innumerable serpents that lurk beneath the accumulation of dead leaves bestrewing the ground.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

What is all this about bestrewing the body?

From Yiddish Tales by Various