strewn with

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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England—The neighborhood around Harris Hussein’s barbershop in this once thriving industrial city is marked by potholes and strewn with piles of uncollected trash.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Streets in the commercial district lie strewn with debris after the Uba River overflows, collapsing a bridge and several buildings.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

But he also finds inspiration throughout a land strewn with remains.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

Inside, about ten feet down, the floor was strewn with straw and sawdust.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee