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

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.

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