strewn with

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The dining room table, where the sisters wrote, is strewn with manuscripts, quill pens and tea cups; a bonnet and shawl bedeck a chair in the small kitchen.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England—The neighborhood around Harris Hussein’s barbershop in this once thriving industrial city is marked by potholes and strewn with piles of uncollected trash.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

This matters most because ambiguity over his goal has been repeatedly questioned in Congress and the path to it is strewn with the greatest risks of all.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

Streets in the commercial district lie strewn with debris after the Uba River overflows, collapsing a bridge and several buildings.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

Indeed I saw the ground strewn with dusty ribbons and crushed flowers wilting in his heedless wake.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein