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
She had rather a dread of new stories—it took the little boys so long to get initiated and the first steps were so terribly bestrewn with questions.
From A London Life and Other Tales by Henry James
We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from Calais on board.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens
Daa was a man of great eccentricity of appearance, tall and gaunt, with limbs flung wildly about, and his fine head recklessly bestrewn with disordered hair, grizzled and reddish.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
