[ US /ˈstɹu/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈuː/ ]
VERB
  1. spread by scattering (
    strew toys all over the carpet
    straw
  2. cover; be dispersed over
    Dead bodies strewed the ground
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How To Use strew In A Sentence

  • Oblivious, Sam paused to quickly scan the print-outs and spiky, almost illegible handwritten notes strewn around the room.
  • In ‘Mister Squishy,’ the story about the focus group, the main character, Terry Schmidt, is strewn about in this medium, a strange involution of tone and form.
  • The dregs of humanity strewn around me. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cinema itself was pretty filthy, with popcorn strewn across the floor. The Sun
  • Enraged by the success of "We's Lives," he writes a violent, nihilistic, dialect-strewn thug novel he bitingly titles "My Pafology. A Protean Chronicler of Racial Puzzles
  • Scabbards, broken arms, artillery horses, wrecks of gun carriages, and bloody garments strewed the scene.
  • The NDTV network broadcast footage from the scene, about 170km southeast of New Delhi, showing debris strewn across the tracks and police officers carrying bodies covered with sheets on stretchers.
  • Shops were ripped open and their contents strewn through the dusty streets. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dead bodies strewed the ground
  • The prose is strewn with biblical and poetic tags and pang full of rhetorical devices.
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