bestrew
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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
Big stones bestrew the slopes; here and there a cottage seems little better than a pile of such stones covered with slabs of slate or coarse thatch.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
Crush'd hopes, like withered leaves, bestrew thy way!
From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851 by Various
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
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
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
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
A slight struggle ensued, in the midst of which the pocket-book fell to the ground, and a considerable number of bank-notes bestrewed the pavement.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 by Robert Chambers
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
His chest heaved higher, the powerful muscles of his arm grew stiffer, his eyes seemed to shoot out light, as their upward gaze sought in imagination the dark sky bestrewn with stars.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
But quickly she extricated herself, and they picked their way cautiously over the bestrewn threshold out into the hall.
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
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
What is all this about bestrewing the body?
From Yiddish Tales by Various
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
"Thou dost know that the china-packer comes early to-morrow morn, and that e'en now the barrels and boxes and excelsior are bestrewing the dining room?"
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
