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

Then by all means bestrew your scenes  With half the lotuses that blow, Pothooks and fishing-lines and things,  But let the human woman go!

From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Old Haygarth had helped his industrious and respectable son-in-law along the stony road that leads to fortune, and had no doubt given him many a lift over the stones which bestrew that toilsome highway.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)