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 Whymper, Edward

It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But quickly she extricated herself, and they picked their way cautiously over the bestrewn threshold out into the hall.

From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison