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

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

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

As Christmas decorations come down, London's streets will be strewn with real trees waiting to be picked up by council workers, raising questions about their environmental impact and what can be done to reduce waste.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2026

The corridor stretched in both directions to infinity, strewn with cardboard boxes and trash and monkey biscuits.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston