strew
Example Sentences
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A tour of the home given to Rai showed a wood-burning stove in a kitchen, colourful children's beds covered with stuffed animals, and Christmas lights strewn about the home.
From Barron's
“Expensive Basketball” is an encyclopedic romp through hoops history, footnotes strewn throughout like so many perimeter ball screens, threads blissfully unconnected.
Hundreds of books have been left strewn across the pavement by council-employed contractors outside a former library in south London.
From BBC
Each just the size of my hand, the soft wooden chairs lie strewn around a stack of bricks.
From Los Angeles Times
But when I finally figured out where the plaque was supposed to be, I found a shallow slot strewn with trash and the remnants of the adhesive that once kept the plaque in its place.
From Los Angeles Times
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