Bestrewed

Word BESTREWED
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Definitions and meanings of "Bestrewed"

What do we mean by bestrewed?

To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.

To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing.

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The word "bestrewed" in example sentences

Still it sickens! — blood of men bestrewed our path, ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Mirtika (2006)

Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor; other books lay about grimy and black, looking as if they had never been opened. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Garlands and wreaths of palm fronds and blossoms tossed from one vessel towards the other bestrewed the surface of the wide river. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)

Christmas and New Year bestrewed the floor with cotton batting as they danced with the old ladies. ❋ Mary Finley Leonard (N/A)

A quantity of onion skins and tomata stalks, some rusty bacon rind, the skin of a lean rabbit, and some feathers that might have belonged either to a crow or a chicken, bestrewed the ground, affording intelligible hints as to a few of the heterogeneous materials already committed to the huge bowels of the kettle. ❋ Various (N/A)

"The fiddle of which the wreck bestrewed your chamber when you left it," replied the stranger. ❋ Various (N/A)

Our feet were tortured by the new stiff boots; some of the boys took theirs off and walked in their socks, but these had their feet cut and bruised by the stones which plentifully bestrewed our way. ❋ Jack O'Brien (N/A)

But 'tis no good meeting troubles halfway, and I resolutely kept my thought from dwelling on the manifold dangers that bestrewed our path to liberty. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)

Nothing now was to be seen but the face of horror and despair, blood stained the floors of the houses, dead bodies bestrewed the streets, groans and cries were heard from all parts. ❋ John Foxe (N/A)

They not only adorned their _heads_, _necks_, and _breasts_, like the Egyptians, but often bestrewed the couches on which they lay, and all parts of the room, with flowers; though the head was chiefly regarded, as appears from ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The precious potion bestrewed the ground, making a garden of that desolate place. ❋ Marie De France (N/A)

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