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.

From The Wall Street Journal

One has been tipped over, and there is rotting food, tins and plastic strewn over a wide area.

From BBC

In handing out gift boxes with a candlestick, revolver, rope, lead pipe, wrench and dagger, Mr. Boddy has set in motion a game that by the end will leave the mansion strewn with corpses.

From Los Angeles Times

Both Vance and Howard have strewn their stories with suicide and domestic violence and then looked at every reason except for the psychiatric ones.

From Salon