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

Each year that we live shall we sing it anew, With a water untravelled before us for sailing And a water behind us that wrecks may bestrew.

From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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