bestrewn
Example Sentences
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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
So we resumed our harness and departed; not, however, before a huge cairn had been built out of the blocks of gneiss with which the summit is bestrewn.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
Verily he trots off, comforting his angry belly with his plenteous tail, flattened and bestrewn under it.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
