bestrew

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

All who have even a slight acquaintance with sagas know the extraordinary periphrases for common objects, for men and maidens, for ships and swords, that bestrew them.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

But lately I beheld “Torn planks bestrew the shore: and oft I've read “On empty tombs, the names of dead inscrib'd.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard

It is safe to say that Richardson would have delivered a more nuanced movie—his Mahogany would undoubtedly have avoided the camp that bestrews the Gordy version.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2015

We depart—the only two living beings to be seen in that unreal and miasmal place, that village which bestrews the earth and lies under our feet.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray

Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

From A Hero of Our Time by J. H. Wisdom

So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020

Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017

Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015

Not only was Flappy Bird by far the No. 1 free app on both the iPhone and Android app stores, but blatant rip-offs like Flappy Plane, Fly Birdie, and Ironpants bestrewed the top 50.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2014

On the left of the steep road stood two cottages; on the right the gable end of a larger house rose heavily from the hillside, and from the sparse gorse bushes that bestrewed it.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

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

I like to see the furniture all bestrewn with it, and Deppe himself seated at his table surrounded with piles of manuscript, pen in hand, going over and arranging them, bringing order out of chaos.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

The sands of the little cove seemed harder and whiter than ever, and were thickly bestrewn with the shells and seaweed which the upturnings of the night had brought in.

From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

He conveyed the impression that the collection of documents, books, telephones, and other paraphernalia bestrewing his table had reduced him to a state of stupor.

From Dope by Sax Rohmer

More perilous even than these animals, to the wanderer in the forest, are the innumerable serpents that lurk beneath the accumulation of dead leaves bestrewing the ground.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

Morning dawned so calm and clear that but for the swimming ground and the broken tiles bestrewing it, the priest would have thought he had dreamed a terrible nightmare.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Till then it would be well for you to seek of the wisdom of Merlin guidance to overcome the dangers bestrewing your path.’

From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford

The casement opened, and first appeared a fair hand, which, with a long tapering jug of blue and white Dutch porcelain, was bestrewing water upon the flowers in the little wooden balcony.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various