bestrew

Example Sentences

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Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2015

Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trees bestrew the ground or have disappeared, torn away, their stumps mangled.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

On the day of the raise in salary his sister got the children to bed and straightened up the litter of small garments that seemed always to bestrew the house, even to the lower floor.

From The Amazing Interlude by Rinehart, Mary Roberts