How To Use Bestrew In A Sentence
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Most of the properties were closed up, the lawns pristine. Only a few looked inhabited - lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned.
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The whole floor of the classroom was bestrewn with bits of paper.
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Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.
Dracula
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Beneath the wide, arched ceiling so high that it faded away into shadows, a hundred and more of the kindred were gathered, garbed in velvet and silk, bestrewn with jewels, as glorious a court as any monarch could wish.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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As they file away – ideally killed by the zombies that bestrewed the capital in 28 Days Later, who then perform a ballet giving a glimpse of what Stratford will look like once everyone has gone – Kate Winslet comes on.
London Olympics opening ceremony imagined – Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet and a giant toilet bowl
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But that soccer ball is a shiny pink-and-silver confection of a thing, and those trains inevitably get tucked away in a twee little handbag and hooked over the handle of a bright pink stroller bestrewn with garlands of beads and ribbons (her own design, no less.)
Sugar and Spice | Her Bad Mother
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Those lads were however careful enough in what they did, but as for him, he let the box, he held, slip from his hands, and bestrewed the whole courtyard with cakes.
Hung Lou Meng
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Beneath the wide, arched ceiling so high that it faded away into shadows, a hundred and more of the kindred were gathered, garbed in velvet and silk, bestrewn with jewels, as glorious a court as any monarch could wish.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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In his Lives of the Saints, he writes, We read in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Slowly entering the cottage, Dimitri found Reana kneeling next to the cadaver of the old man, which lay bestrewn upon the floor.
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But that soccer ball is a shiny pink-and-silver confection of a thing, and those trains inevitably get tucked away in a twee little handbag and hooked over the handle of a bright pink stroller bestrewn with garlands of beads and ribbons her own design, no less.
Sugar and Spice
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The destruction of the woods, to say nothing of its effects upon the rainfall, caused the top soil to be washed away, and thus impoverished the arable land, filling the rivers with earth, rendering them innavigable, and converting them from gently-flowing streams to devastating torrents, which annually bestrew the valleys and plains with sand and stones. [
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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“We always do it on their way out -- you never know what can happen to someone who gets scared on their way into the bathroom,” said Kim, pointing to his hiding areas in the ceiling of the manmade, lantern-lit, rock and bamboo bestrewn recreation of a ninja village.
Sushi Swords and Scares: Dining at Ninja New York
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My guess is that the crossing he superintends at Trafalgar Square is not all that bestrewn with muck, and although by no means wholesome is no more filthy than the same streets today at the end of a busy week-day.
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You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake?
June 2005
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“George” Inn. The ragged walls of our rooms were clammy with dirt, the smoky rafters foul with cobwebs, and the floor, bestrewed with kit, in terrible confusion, was black with hosts of cockroaches, ants, and flies.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
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Her neighbourhood was bestrewn with yellow ribbons, a suburban community united in love and loss of one of their own.
Times, Sunday Times
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A no - till planter was designed that can work on the field bestrewing whole maize straw.
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From that soul, he created its mate, and through them, he bestrewed the earth with countless men and women.
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Shirt and his attendants mentioned that cedar-logs and other attractive flotsam bestrewed the beaches, and volunteered to conduct the strangers to the best places on the understanding that they, being alien and hostile, should remain under the protection of the rifle-carrying white men.
Tropic Days
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Still it sickens! — blood of men bestrewed our path,
The Voyage of Magellan
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Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor; other books lay about grimy and black, looking as if they had never been opened.
Almayer's Folly
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I watch you closely, your pale face, bestrewed by small shy freckles, your black silk eyelashes and strict contoured eyebrows, small weak white teeth and nice chin - how beautiful you looked that day!
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It is not bedotted with artists 'sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.
Essays of Travel
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‘We read’, he says, in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.
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Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions?
Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Dead bodies lay bestrewn upon the ground in red pools of fresh blood, now infested with rats and various other scavengers whom had come in hopes of preying upon an easy meal.
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Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts.
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