strew

We strew waste across the Earth from our industrialized societies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2023

A large section of the building facade is missing along its roofline, with rubble strew across the road below.

From BBC ● May 1, 2023

Disturbed by statistics on Italian emigration that swelled to 84,000 in 1884 alone, Scalabrini wrote that the mass emigration and separation of families would “help strew white the lands of America with their bones.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

The interior of the Subaru looked like a college dorm room at the end of finals — food wrappers, half-packed bags and road strew cluttering every quadrant.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022

So I offered to fetch fresh lavender to strew in Gertrude’s bedchamber, and that night I knelt again on the ground, gathering the silvery, purple-tipped fronds of lavender into my arms.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Then junior year comes along and strews the floor with trip wires that forces entire families to navigate them all in a fog of perpetual exhaustion and hastily prepared and erratically timed meals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023

Her descriptions of food, decor, and clothing are precise: the way Kristin strews juniper and flowers on the floor to prepare for guests, and her blue-violet leather shoes “stitched with silver and rose-color stones.”

From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2017

“Traveling Sprinkler,” like the ingenious lawn product that makes up its title, strews glistening droplets in an even spritz.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2013

In Act 2, rubble from the wrecked proscenium strews the stage, the remnants of the Minstrels' Hall in the Wartburg castle, where Tannhaeuser takes part in a song contest.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2010

They damn the "lying yankee scrawl," Torn from thine hand, it strews the wave,— They force thee, trembling, to the yawl.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

Units that housed patients were torn apart, their ceilings displaying gaping holes, with debris strewed through hallways and patient rooms.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

Elvis' actual house is smaller than you'd think and kinda gives off grandpa vibes with the overly carpeted rooms and hallways, and bric-a-brac strewed about.

From Salon ● Jan. 22, 2023

There are no photos, no books, no papers strewed about on the white counter that serves as a desk.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

“He left the field strewed with Army tacklers who had a shot at him and came up empty-handed,” sports columnist Shirley Povich wrote in The Post.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2019

Lavinia’s room; and strewed about it things he had never seen before—stays, kerchiefs, patchboxes, ribbons, fripperies.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

When crews arrived, they found the vehicle destroyed with metal and glass strewn across the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Instead of cutting off the Emiratis, the Biden administration created a way for them to obtain the chips they needed, even if the path was strewn with bureaucratic hurdles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

As we leave the dilapidated compound, with books strewn across the floors of some classrooms, we spot a schoolgirl in uniform walking forlornly towards her home.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

In one heavily damaged neighbourhood, Rana Nasrallah surveyed her destroyed home, the rubble strewn with clothes, furniture and pot plants.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

She watched the road closely so as not to step on any garbage strewn along the way and also to see if she might find anything useful for her family.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

The Hercules aircraft went down shortly after departure from Puerto Leguizamo, near the southern border with Ecuador, strewing burning wreckage on the jungle floor.

From Barron's ● Mar. 23, 2026

The storm brought fierce winds and drove surging seawater miles inland, strewing the area with fallen trees, power lines and debris.

From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023

Climbing over fallen redwoods strewing the road after one of the toughest storms in March, I realized that my climate grief presents as numbness, disgust, fury and despair.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2023

Thousands more cheered, many strewing flowers in the path of her glass-topped hearse, as the queen’s coffin was driven to Windsor Castle, where she was buried next to her husband, Prince Philip.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

Suddenly a blast of shot ripped through the bottom of the can, blowing the lid off and strewing the contents all over the old dog.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford