- past participle of bestrew.
bestrewn
Example Sentences
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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
We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from Calais on board.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Dickens, Mamie
The way is desert and bestrewn with mountains; and the pest of mosquitoes is suffered, as well as the extreme heat.
The Court was all bestrewn with herbs, and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.”
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Trumble, Alfred