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

Later ages view the matter as of no importance; and the lives that are lost in the struggle are as forgotten as the multitudinous leaves which bestrew the ground of an autumnal forest.

From Children of the Market Place by Masters, Edgar Lee

But lately I beheld “Torn planks bestrew the shore: and oft I've read “On empty tombs, the names of dead inscrib'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.