strewed

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Strewed everywhere were years’ worth of unopened letters and parcels.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

Strewed with garbage bags and clothes and festering objects of dubious identity, this is the Dublin residence of someone who, as your mother might observe, has never been taught to pick up after himself.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2013

The crickets' tinkling chips of sound Strewed dim the twilight-twinkling ground; A whippoorwill began to cry, And glimmering through the sober sky A bat went on its drunken round, Its shadow following on the ground.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius

Strewed about in the corners I saw fragments of vases that had been priceless.

From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

A traveler on the dusty road Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, And grew into a tree.

From Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two by Various