[
US
/ˈstɹu/
]
[ UK /stɹˈuː/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈuː/ ]
VERB
-
spread by scattering (
strew toys all over the carpet
straw -
cover; be dispersed over
Dead bodies strewed the ground
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.