strewed

Example Sentences

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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

The stage: just a shelf strewed with rubble.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2022

“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