Sentence example with the word 'strew'

strew

bestrew, circumfuse, diffract, disperse, dissipate, dust, litter, overspread, radiate, sow, spread, straw

Definition v. spread by scattering

Last update: June 18, 2015


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Where the bed should have been, there was a wooden frame, strewed with withered moss and rushes, the couch of the ascetic.   [verb]

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Mother scolded the kids when they strew the paper on the floor.   [verb]

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Straw (from strew, as being used for strewing), is the general term applied to the stalky residue of grain-plants (especially wheat, rye, oats, barley).   [verb]

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A ruined citadel remains on the north-west, and on the east was a bridge over the Jordan; broken pottery and fragments of sculptured stone strew the site.   [verb]

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They strewed the ways with boughs, and strewed the boughs with roses.   [verb]

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It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.   [verb]

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Before daylight they went with the dogs and a large bundle of hay, which they strewed nearer to the mound of drift-snow.   [verb]

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Demetrius spoke no more, but arranged the sheets of papyrus that strewed the table.   [verb]

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Barine's father was dead, her mother was accustomed to follow Didymus's counsel, and the clever fellow had managed to strew dust in the old man's eyes.   [verb]

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The king gave way to the most immoderate grief; he tore the flesh of his arms, rent his clothes and strewed ashes on his head, and on his couch.   [verb]

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Not content with this, he strewed gold-dust in his hair and beard and filled his mouth to that extent that he appeared in the act of choking.   [verb]

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