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
Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
There is a rude engraving of the author for frontispiece, title in red letter, a tedious preface, and the text is plentifully bestrewn with Latin and Greek quotations.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
It seemed to have no end, but disappeared deep in the thicket, and, as far as they could see, it was all bestrewn with similar treasures.
From The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter by T. von Oer
