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

I like to see the furniture all bestrewn with it, and Deppe himself seated at his table surrounded with piles of manuscript, pen in hand, going over and arranging them, bringing order out of chaos.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy

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