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

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

Because he was to her so infinitely dear, his path seemed ever bestrewn with dangers.

From A Book of Myths by Stratton, Helen

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