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

Verily he trots off, comforting his angry belly with his plenteous tail, flattened and bestrewn under it.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

There is a rude engraving of the author for frontispiece, title in red letter, a tedious preface, and the text is plentifully bestrewn with Latin and Greek quotations.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard