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

From BBC ● May 1, 2023

The only sign that the damaged building is not abandoned are the bunches of freshly cut, fragrant grass that worshipers traditionally strew in places of worship.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 12, 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

His voice rises into a stressed high range, and harmonies in the orchestra offer little comfort as he acknowledges that advancing age will not strew a single consoling flower.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2016

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

Liontas strews her own prose with aborted explanations: “Litza knew not to suggest that they drive together, so.”

From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2015

Among the best reasons to come to “The Art of Contoversy” is that as it rolls along, Mr. Navasky strews, like breadcrumbs, a minimemoir of his own busy life and times.

From New York Times ● May 23, 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

So the wild wind strews its perfumed caresses: Evil and thankless the desert it blesses; Bitter the wave that its soft pinion presses; Never it ceaseth to whisper and sing.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

The one-night hedonistic release is one of the world’s largest New Year’s celebrations and leaves Copacabana’s famed 2.4 miles of sand strewed with trash.

From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 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

Rosaleen let me bring it home, right into the living room, where I strewed a box of Quaker Oats on the floor for it to eat and she didn’t raise a word of protest.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

The full extent of the damage is still to be assessed, but photos and videos show debris strewn on the streets, while rescuers dig through the rubble of collapsed buildings to locate survivors.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

It showed dead cattle strewn around McClain’s Texas lot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

A foundation of the tea olive strewn over the bottom, cool and green.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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

Their faces paled with dread before Athena, and swords dropped from their hands unnerved, to lie strewing the ground, at the great voice of the goddess.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer