bestrew

Example Sentences

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Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2017

More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2015

Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides.

From Time Magazine Archive

When villagers my shroud bestrew With pansies, rosemary, and rue,— Then, lady, weave a wreath for me, And weave it of the cypress-tree!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Tell me, those Palestinian Jews who were so interested in my death, and brought earth from over there to bestrew me—tell me, are they also only there to die?

From Yiddish Tales by Various