bestrew

Example Sentences

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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

"But why, Y�del dear, when they thought I was buying Palestinian earth to bestrew me after death, was I looked upon almost like a saint?"

From Yiddish Tales by Various

Good-morrow to this primrose too; Good-morrow to each maid That will with flowers the tomb bestrew Wherein my love is laid.

From English Songs and Ballads by Crosland, T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson)