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
The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
The sands of the little cove seemed harder and whiter than ever, and were thickly bestrewn with the shells and seaweed which the upturnings of the night had brought in.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
At one view I comprehended this—I read it in the aperture sawn through the doubled planking, and in the fragments of casks and cases with which the ice was bestrewn around.
From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William
