bestrew

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

When winter trees bestrew the path, Still to the twig a leaf or twain Will cling and weep, not Winter's wrath, But that foreknown, forlorner pain— To fall when green leaves come again!

From The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

All the discrepancies which bestrew ordinary life are absent.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman

It is safe to say that Richardson would have delivered a more nuanced movie—his Mahogany would undoubtedly have avoided the camp that bestrews the Gordy version.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2015

So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

We depart—the only two living beings to be seen in that unreal and miasmal place, that village which bestrews the earth and lies under our feet.

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

Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

From A Hero of Our Time by J. H. Wisdom

Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017

Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015

Not only was Flappy Bird by far the No. 1 free app on both the iPhone and Android app stores, but blatant rip-offs like Flappy Plane, Fly Birdie, and Ironpants bestrewed the top 50.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2014

But 'tis no good meeting troubles halfway, and I resolutely kept my thought from dwelling on the manifold dangers that bestrewed our path to liberty.

From Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow by Herbert Strang

Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013

They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber.

From The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) by Henry James

Grace, who had no opinions on art, saw no merit whatever in those "impressions" on canvas from Nick's hand with which the place was bestrewn.

From The Tragic Muse by Henry James

He would smile grimly as with dogged persistence he started this latest child of his fancy out along the trail so thickly bestrewn with the skeletons of elder offspring.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by J. N. Marchand

The casement opened, and first appeared a fair hand, which, with a long tapering jug of blue and white Dutch porcelain, was bestrewing water upon the flowers in the little wooden balcony.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Till then it would be well for you to seek of the wisdom of Merlin guidance to overcome the dangers bestrewing your path.’

From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

She was on her feet now, and he saw how entrancing she was, in a blue muslin frock and a broad white hat with a wreath of pink roses bestrewing the tilted brim.

From In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote

More perilous even than these animals, to the wanderer in the forest, are the innumerable serpents that lurk beneath the accumulation of dead leaves bestrewing the ground.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

"Thou dost know that the china-packer comes early to-morrow morn, and that e'en now the barrels and boxes and excelsior are bestrewing the dining room?"

From Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin