strew

Example Sentences

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A large section of the building facade is missing along its roofline, with rubble strew across the road below.

From BBC • May 1, 2023

The only sign that the damaged building is not abandoned are the bunches of freshly cut, fragrant grass that worshipers traditionally strew in places of worship.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2023

Disturbed by statistics on Italian emigration that swelled to 84,000 in 1884 alone, Scalabrini wrote that the mass emigration and separation of families would “help strew white the lands of America with their bones.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2022

The VanderMeer, in trying to tidy up, will create more piles and also decoratively strew books across his desk and night stand.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2021

So I offered to fetch fresh lavender to strew in Gertrude’s bedchamber, and that night I knelt again on the ground, gathering the silvery, purple-tipped fronds of lavender into my arms.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein