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.
A dazzling light was spread through the air, along the whitish hills strewed with cylindric cactuses, and over a sea ever calm, the shores of which were peopled with alcatras, * (* A brown pelican, of the size of a swan. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
The tumbledown exterior walls were smothered with moss and ivy, and many of the original features, including fragments from the first-floor medieval loo - known as the garderobe - were strewn around the overgrown garden.
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
Clean, paved roads give way to dirt paths strewn with rubbish and open sewers. The Sun
Her clothes were found strewn around the apartment. The Sun
The alternative – leaving poisoned candy and loaded shotguns strewn around your property and just saying “hey, I told them damfool neighbor kids to keep off my lawn!” What Kind of Idiot? « Lean Left
Taps that had dried up long ago stuck out from the walls and the floor was strewn with garbage.
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. Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
Soon the hotel began to resemble an infirmary, with dozens of guests in various stages of illness strewn around the lobby every night.
Then the Emir Salamah and his wife and household and all the tribesmen donned garbs black-hued and ashes whereupon to sit they strewed, and ungrateful to them was the taste of food and drink, meat and wine; nor ceased they to beweep their loss, nor could they comprehend what had befallen their son and what of ill-lot had descended upon him from Heaven. Arabian nights. English
A smashed pumpkin mingled with the leaves, its guts strewn about the street.
They have vandalised property, strewn litter and intimidated staff and residents.
Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence. Janey Canuck in the West
His portrait and chair have been garlanded with marigolds and strewn with crimson rose petals.
Anyhow, of furniture decorate should size look line, on any account is conterminous , strewn at random have send.
This show, held in cavernous, candelabra-strewn space that had a whiff of ruined empire, had plenty of strong, practical pieces: impeccably cut overcoats, running the gamut from deepest navy and ashiest gray to the purest white with black trimming; three-piece suits tailored with Browne's signature off-kilter proportions, and a pair of gray corduroy pants strewn with white snowflakes. Esquire.com Article Feed
When I finally walked out toward the cliff's edge I was amused by the plentitude of rusted beer caps strewn about.
The pair split up, Det Supt Higgins heading into Brandsby wood across the spongy forest floor strewn with pine needles and fallen branches.
For they waddied one another till the plain was strewn with dead, The Man from Snowy River
Strew the mozzarella and tomatoes over the pizzas, then add the pancetta, ruffling it up a bit.
Dirty clothes lay strewn everywhere, half-full coffee cups grew mold, and the plant on the windowsill had died and wilted. AFTERMATH
Presently, on the path some sixty feet above them, but hidden from them by the mass of tumbled rocks through which they had descended, they heard someone puffing and blowing, a stick striking and slipping on the stones, and weird rays of light stole down the mountain-side, and in and out of the vast blocks with which it was overstrewn. The History of David Grieve
You know it has been used by thousands -- by millions -- and has strewed the land with desolation, and peopled hell with its victims; and you cannot but acknowledge that you would at once cease to make the liquor, did you not _hope it would continue to be used_. Select Temperance Tracts
The floor was strewn with roses, a detail that seems painfully poignant now. Times, Sunday Times
We didn't get any maid service the following day but that was fine with me because we had most of our belongings strewn around anyhow.
We were at a little secluded cove, with large boulders strewn about, the debris of some long-past hillside.
A few cars had smashed windscreens and the entrails of radios strewn over the seats and onto the pavement where the doors had been wrenched open.
An elderly woman was strewing the floor with French chalk so that the dancing shoes would not slip.
More than 1,500 trees will be planted and concrete bollards will be strewn throughout the area.
Three bagpipers led the way, filling the air with their haunting chords as family, friends and Sailors stretched out behind them along the winding, pebble-strewn path and across emerald-colored hills.
Its straggle of brightly-coloured box-like houses is dramatically set between steep stark mountains and a sound strewn, even at the height of midsummer, with huge stately icebergs.
If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base.
This straw-dry, stone-strewn river plain is perfect for grapes, planted in long straight rows protected by tidy fences with impressive gateways and fancy names for the wines they produce.
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.
Bolts, nails and other metal scrap are dangerously strewn about on the bridges posing threat not only to the pedestrians but to the vehicles as well.
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
I'm ashamed of the state of the litter-strewn waysides and wonder what visitors to this country must think of us.
The fantasy of the undecorated house is Tuesday morning as it is actually lived, not as we would like other people to imagine it; it is the idea of energy, of chaos, of motion, of mess well, mess within very circumscribed and aesthetically pleasing limits: children lying in a pile of books, artfully unmade beds, one piece of clothing strewn across a couch. The Rise of the Personal
The room was crammed with suitcases, footwear, clothes and other odds and ends strewn carelessly around.
His dressing room was strewn with empty caviar jars and champagne bottles.
And then he sped away. leaving me alone to ponder why the landscape was strewn with dead animals for as far as the eye could see.
Then take some finely powdered fluate of lime (fluor spar,) strew it even over the glass plate upon the waxed side, and then gently pour upon it, so as not to displace the powder, as much concentrated sulphuric acid diluted with thrice its weight of water, as is sufficient to cover the powdered fluor spar. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827
At others, downed trees littered parent pickup areas and limbs were strewn across student bike racks.
Trash and food were strewn about the room.
Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies. Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures
‘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.
Buddy's clothes were strewn 'bout the room with care, and gumdrops and juub juubs were stuck in his hair.
You hike through that tunnel of live oak, cool shade and wren song, then climb the stairs that top out on a high dune strewn with pennywort.
The Tungabhadra river meanders gently through, and at night the boulder-strewn landscape has an almost magical quality.
A sorrel and black were tethered nearby and an array of tools was strewn over the ground.
After leaving the kitchen table strewn with cracked eggshells and dyes, Hannah didn't want to go to church.
And if yer wants a bit of bread yer awsks for pain, strewth! "Contemptible", by "Casualty"
The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass. Noma's Spectrum of Flavors
Harry clicked on the light, revealing a small, clean space with a plastic shower curtain decorated with fish and nonskid turquoise flower decals strewn across the base of the shower. Dark Oracle
Pillows, mattresses, blankets and sheets were strewn throughout the room.
His bed was unmade, his nightclothes strewn across the floor, and a small, worn book laid on the table beside the bed.
Although the plot for the cinematic version has been notably streamlined and occasionally reworked in substantial fashion from the bloviated novel, viewers are, by the end, possessors of this little nugget of truth: Dan Brown is just as bad at plotting as he is at writing, and his inability to create characters who are believable is equaled only by his inability to accurately represent the history, art, architecture, and technology found strewn throughout novel/movie. "Angels & Demons" is methodical, pedestrian, and quite silly
It's presented on a block of glass strewn with herbs, along with three Armagnac grapes encrusted in cornflakes and a foie gras parfait topped with a capering silver monkey.
We saw a pink quartz arrowhead and a scraper on one strew of fire-cracked rock. Bird Cloud
A journalist who went to the site reported that empty beer bottles were strewn around and rubbish lay mixed up in the site. The Sun
Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments. Dracula
You should have the sugar-box by you, to strew on sugar from time to time, as you eat off the superficies, that is strewed over with sugar. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened
He wore a slightly peeved expression, a dissected newspaper strewn about his side of the table.
The pale primrose, that flower most like thy face; the bluebell, like thy clear veins; and the leaf of eglantine, which is not sweeter than was thy breath; all these will I strew over thee. Cymbeline
She said the pair became convinced the kitchen was an ‘imminent risk to public health’ after finding it strewn with discarded pizza bases, gravy and salad.
The yard was strewn with garbage.
Lots of rust brown backgrounds with random objects strewn across it.
What I do know is that it's very difficult to pal around with the Muse when kids ask for snacks, the house is adrift in strewn toys, and the theme song from Arthur wafts through the air yet again. January 2007
The grass is strewn with rubbish. Times, Sunday Times
On entering the Church, he noticed pieces of stained glass strewn over the sanctuary and on the altar table.
It is not bedotted with artists 'sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics. Essays of Travel
The refinery, strewn with asbestos and drenched in oil, was an ecological disaster. Times, Sunday Times
Pour honey and strew white sesame.
Forty white roses were strewn atop the granite stones that mark his grave site, left by Kennedy family members during a private early morning prayer service.
The loft was strewn with clothes; shirts were draped over the couch and loveseat while pants were hung with hangers on the kitchen table seats.
And on the corners where dealers gather, broken glass and trash are deliberately strewn about the curbsides and sidewalks to make it easier to drop drug stashes among the litter and retrieve them later.
The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls. A Year on the Wing
The pale primrose, that flower most like thy face; the blue-bell, like thy clear veins; and the leaf of eglantine, which is not sweeter than was thy breath; all these will I strew over thee. Tales from Shakespeare
Shoppers yesterday spoke of their shock at the wanton act of vandalism as they walked past the flattened £1, 500 tree with its brightly coloured baubles strewn across the paving.
We clamber up over rocks onto a barren, boulder-strewn moonscape where we pick up speed.
Streams and becks were strewn with tree trunks, branches and litter which would all block the watercourses during heavy rain.
I don't want to get shot down in a helicopter, and have my guts strewn around a mountainside. Times, Sunday Times
Adrina trod the flower-strewn path regally until she reached her father and curtsied gracefully. TREASON KEEP
The street was strewn with broken glass.
At first glance, the streets are ablaze with colors strewn across an endless canvas of neon signs with undecipherable writing.
Forget ‘strewth ‘and ‘fuller than a seaside dunny on Boxing Day‘.
What reason was it, O rose of seventeen, adorning thyself with cloudy films of lace and sparks of jewelry before the mirror that reflects youth and beauty, that made Miss Lucinda array herself in a brand-new dress of yellow muslin-de-laine strewed with round green spots, and displace her customary hand-kerchief for a huge tamboured collar, on this eventful occasion? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
The blankets were shredded, as were the pillows, the feather stuffing strewn everywhere.
Hundreds of pages of lecture notes were strewn across the living room and bedroom.
With the Sun warming your aura, cheerleader Mars egging you on and generous Jupiter strewing your path with stardust, you Cancerians are this month's lucky ducks.
Lithographs by Henry Moore are strewn nonchalantly on the surface of an odds-and-ends box, left as samples for visiting artists to leaf through.
The word strew means to scatter -- as men scatter seed in sowing it. Barnes New Testament Notes
The path is strewn with hardships but also some boons.
Strewn all about are huge avalanched boulders, like the play toys of giants.
Books are open on every surface, and there are many pages of notebooks strewn around.
The floor was strewn with clothes.
Bottles have been smashed in the car park, and the area left strewn with litter.
The Observer carries a big front-page picture of rioters in a litter-strewn street.
He had seen women of sixty, rouged, and jewelled, and furbelowed, foot it deftly in the halls of the Faubourg St. Germain in his earliest youth; and this cheery, healthy woman, with lingering blooms on either cheek, and uncapped head of curly black hair but slightly strewn with silver, seemed quite as fit a subject for the accomplishment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861
As with the previous biennial, Berlin's gallery-strewn Mitte district will be the event's principal setting.
Several pieces of galvanise sheets were strewn along the shore as the battered boats, some of which were overturned, sat atop piles of debris and slush.
Books were strewn all over the kitchen, sat in stacks against the wall, propping up every piece of furniture. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
a third stands quietly until his lading is nearly completed, and then suddenly starts and flounces until he throws every thing off, a fourth at the same interesting point stamps upon your foot, breaks away, and scampers off into the prairie, strewing the way with his burden, a fifth refuses to be loaded at all, and a sixth to stand still, be led or driven. Life in the Rocky Mountains
On the other side, in the city of New Haven, is the West Rock housing project: boarded-up buildings, litter-strewn cul-de-sacs, and dead-end roads.
While the nobles and their followers, that crowd of _bravi_ that the statutes against maintenance had vainly tried to suppress, strewed the fields of A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
The hillside behind the barn is strewn with farm equipment in various states of repair, and the milking parlor is in a battered barn.
The huge central courtyard is strewn with rubble after months of heavy shelling. Times, Sunday Times
The short divide beyond the far bank of the Sirr is strewn with glittering mica-schist that takes the forms of tree-trunks and rotten wood; and with dark purple-blue fragments of clay-slate looking as if they had been worked. The Land of Midian
Does the farmer return strew straw to the field?
The house was filthy, with clothes and newspapers strewn everywhere.
From the guarded and secretive streets of the whitewashed barrios, with their flower-strewn interiors, to the shady bodegas where ice cold sherry is served from ancient wooden casks, everything about Seville says romance.
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!
The Cumberlands were covered with rich undergrowth of the red and white rhododendron, the delicate laurel, the mountain ivy, the flameazalea, the spicewood, and the cane; while the white stars of the dogwood and the carmine blossoms of the red-bud, strewn across the verdant background of the forest, gleamed in the eager air of spring. The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
A woven tapestry showing wolves on a pine-strewn snowscape hung from the brick fireplace façade that extended to the high ceiling. Bring On the Night
If the peasantry ever found out, they'd eat him alive, and strew what remained of his mangled pride across the four corners of the kingdom.
She remembered the huge house filled with flowers, the servants all dressed in black, and the heady perfume of the early spring narcissi, which lay strewn in piles upon the coffin. Storyteller
Weeks after the grand fête, the garbage generated festers in an illegal dump strewn along the Troumassee river bank.
The construction was lath and plaster, and chips of wood and chunks of plaster flew from the wall and lay strewn about the floor, the white dust settling in the cracks of the floorboards and the creases of his forehead. The Hole in the Wall « A Fly in Amber
Paradise Valley, a plain desert strewn with greasewood and chamiso; and down in the floor of Death Valley is, or rather was, Greenland. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
The black cloud descended lower over them as the car jolted over the pothole strewn country lane through the hills.
In her mind, she held the view of the dead horse, the ragamuffins and the seepy-eyed girl alongside her memories of seeing the shirtwaist strikers calling fervently for justice, seeing her dozens of dresses strewn across the floor the day she’d offered one to Bella, and seeing an image of herself, lying in bed. Uprising
The flatbread was a ritzy variant on pizza with a thin, frangible crust held together by a liberal serving of melted Brie, and sensibly strewn with cubes of smoked salmon and capers.
A table at the back of the room is strewn with delivery pizza, surrounded by networking techies shaking hands and chatting idly about venture funds, Silicon Alley, and location-based services. At Brooklyn Law, A Tech-Focused Clinic Helps Startups Off The Ground
‘We have magnificent countryside but litter is strewn all over the place,’ Roughead said.
They picked up items that lay strewn across the small control panel and sniffed at them.
You were introduced to wet shaving and decided that was the route for you but your razor and brush remain strewn about your bathroom sink? DIY Razor and Shaving Brush Stand | Lifehacker Australia
The hillside behind the barn is strewn with farm equipment in various states of repair, and the milking parlor is in a battered barn.
Lustreware ceramics from this period were signed, showing the high regard in which artists were held. Times, Sunday Times
Aluminum trays of half-eaten baked ziti and boxes of muffins and chocolates lay strewn about.
Inside, the floor is strewn with rubble and shards of glass. Times, Sunday Times
Rubbish, including gas bottles, was strewn across the land and the entire site was a health hazard.
Muskets and pikes and sabers lay strewn and forgotten like cut hay.
Eventually, they see beyond the white walls, white chair, and white bed, to the jeans strewn on the floor, the soiled baby bibs, the jars of organic rice pudding.
The farm sat like the rubbish now, strewn in the yard and on the land, waiting for ruination. WHITE LIES
She leaned out of bed, and watched Thistle strew the fine dustlike grains in each shoe. The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
It seemed to me like a palace floor, strewn with roses and powdered gold.
The shore was even more remarkable seen close-to, a wide shining platform of boulder-strewn clay, fractured and crevassed as if by an earthquake, a bleak uncompromising shore. She Closed Her Eyes
The underwater landscape is a tumbling continuation of the cliffs above, with huge slabs of rock strewn about on a bed of chocolate-coloured sand.
For > [Because of the] corses > bodies laystall > {Place where bodies are laid; dunghill, midden} 3 Of murdered men, who therein strewn lay, The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
The streets erupt in a saturnalia of lawlessness, to which the director adds an inspired touch: an escaped elephant from Barnum's circus trumpeting down the rubble-strewn streets.
She thinks it's all about picnics in a field strewn with daisies. Times, Sunday Times
The army began searching the area on Friday and is defusing explosive devices strewn around the area by the blasts.
Damage was caused to the fence and chain, the crosses by the memorial were flattened and litter was strewn around the area.
This chamber was raftered, its walls hung with an obscure tapestry, its floor strewn with sand, and its lozenged casement partly shuttered against the blaze of sunshine that flowed across the forests far away to the west. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
The area is now strewn with broken bottles and rubbish and the playground equipment is covered in graffiti.
The floor was strewn with clothes.
The railway and road construction works require the removal of land mines strewn across the demilitarized zone.
Bardon, who later described the settlement as ‘an unsewered, undrained, garbage-strewn death camp in all but name,’ won the respect of the older men and encouraged them to paint their ancestral stories.
The room was in general disarray with rubbish strewn all over the floor.
History records that the road to international disunity is strewn with skeletons of appeasement. CanadaWhither?
Debris was strewn all around the bakery, located near Osho ashram, which is also frequented by foreigners, and also near a Jewish center. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Fancy yourself in a car which you do not know how to steer and cannot stop, with an inexhaustible supply of petrol in the tank, rushing along at fifty miles an hour on an island strewn with rocks and bounded by cliff precipices!
An elderly woman was strewing the floor with French chalk so that the dancing shoes would not slip.
At least he's starting to do most of his business on the paper strewn all over the place.
It was a three-decker, with peeling paint, windows covered with graffitied wood planks, and broken toys strewn on the lawn. TOGETHER ALONE
When the frame has been sufficiently exposed, it is taken into the dark room, the sensitized pieces of glass laid on a plate of glass or marble with the sensitive surface turned upward, and the previously prepared vitrifiable color strewed over it by means of a few light strokes of a brush. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
Swirl them into creamy yoghurt fools, or strew them over pancakes, waffles and French toast.
Below, a precipitous slope of small stones that the dalesmen call a scree ran down to a hollow strewn with broken rocks, and across this he could distinguish the blurred flat top of another height. The Girl from Keller's
The youngsters also light barbecues and leave the area strewn with litter and empty beer cans.
This year more than ever our environment is litter strewn.
I am writing this in a room strewn with wine bottles, dirty clothes, coffee cups, overturned books, and slumbering men. Exit the Actress
One picture showed rubble strewn around the taxi rank outside the terminal; another showed fires blazing inside the building. Times, Sunday Times
The bottom of the mountain was strewn with rocks and debris.
Looking across the bay or large alcove from the Zejua’s restaurant area, one could see in the distance, like a mirage, this lovely tropical, coconut tree strewn island like beach, “vacant” and worthy of visiting for a life time. The First Time You Saw Mexico....
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
The door to the spare room was open and the boxes and cases in there had been strewn all over the floor. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Still it sickens! — blood of men bestrewed our path, The Voyage of Magellan
Some of the streets are strewn with tiles from roofs and chimney pots. Times, Sunday Times
So I entered and found myself in a chamber strewn with sweet-scented herbs and with a curtain drawn across one corner, from behind which came a sound of groaning and grame, weak as from an emaciated frame. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The same colors are repeated in the gilt tazza, the garland of flowers and the pendant, hair ornament, and other jewelry strewn on the table.
A few concrete structures are still standing and the main street of the village is strewn with trees and rubble.
I have watched how words have been twisted, strewn and bent into whole other shapes by parts of the media.
She just kept walking, one canvas-clad foot in front of the other, looking sideways at the sunlit ripple of water, gleaming Lincoln memorial in front, straggle of Canada geese strewn on the grass, and then down at Suraiya's feet, clad sensibly today in only half-inch heels, in special consideration of their lunch-time walk on the Mall. For the Sake of the Boy
The train was shunted onto a siding and wreckage was strewn along 200 yards of track.
The water was rippling from the wind, and leaves being strewn into the small waves.
Wreckage was strewn over a wide area and that, combined with the thick fog, made the task exceptionally difficult.
Often when an executive takes that last step up the ladder and becomes chairman of a company, the view from the top is strewn with things that need to be cleaned up.
It's amazing how well they can negotiate some half-regrown clear-cut strewn with tops like it's not really there. Moose in Your Face
The path all the way up was strewn with litter, dog excrement and branches from trees.
Some of the merchants were drowned and others made shift to reach the shore and save themselves upon the mountain; I amongst the number, and when we got ashore, we found a great island, or rather peninsula72 whose base was strewn with wreckage of crafts and goods and gear cast up by the sea from broken ships whose passengers had been drowned; and the quantity confounded compt and calculation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The refinery, strewn with asbestos and drenched in oil, was an ecological disaster. Times, Sunday Times
With no litter bins, the platforms were strewn with rubbish.
The pair had hobbled into the garden to gather rosemary, southernwood, rue, and other plants proper to be strewed upon the body, and burned by way of fumigation in the chimney of the cottage. The Bride of Lammermoor
In this I include not only the stations but also a lot of the trackside which is often overgrown where it isn't strewn with litter and debris.
Cecil gulped, he looked around at the surprisingly empty street, burned out husks of vehicles, rubble strewn all over the road, dead bodies, fire, smoke, it was almost too much.
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
There were dirty clothes strewn around the beds.
Neither boy waited to see more; another kettleful of chickpeas smoking in a heap on the floor; soda crackers crumbled and strewn in a line next to the doorsill. Excerpt: Beloved by Toni Morrison
The road-bridge and Victorian pedestrian footbridge are completely neglected and the canal and its verge are litter strewn.
Among other things which lay strewed about here, were a spearshaft, eight feet in length, recently made and ochred; parts of old canoes, fragments of their skin-dresses, &c. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 387, August 28, 1829

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