Word Finder - strewn

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(archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.

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to strew sand over a floor

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(archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.

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Leaves strewed the ground.

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To spread abroad; to disseminate.

All of the luggage was still strewn about the room.

The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.

Nothing was seriously damaged, simply strewn about.

Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.

The houses were scrupulously clean and strewn with sweet herbs.

In short, Tunisia is as much strewn with Roman remains as is Italy itself.

Straw was strewn over the floor at the farther end.

As a perfume it was strewn in Greek halls, courts and theatres, and in the Roman baths.

He motioned for me to follow and led me tip toeing over the stone strewn yard to the cabin.

When the trail stopped at the edge of a rock strewn clearing, Carmen continued.

A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.

All its neighbourhood is strewn with kurgans (tumuli).

Hence their bottoms are generally ice-worn or strewn over with moraine stuff.

The city is built on the flat summit of a rocky hill, which rises abruptly in the midst of a veritable wilderness; a brown, arid, treeless table-land, strewn with immense grey boulders, and shut in by lofty mountains.

The thoughts of the carelessly discarded bodies he'd strewn across American were inescapable.

It was strewn with loose gravel and stone, with occasional clumps of hardy vegetation mixed with larger boulders.

In the majority of cases the cremation ashes are strewn or buried in the gardens of remembrance.

Victorian and Edwardian Britain is strewn with the evidence of philanthropic and state benefaction.

In other places, landslide debris was strewn across the road barring the way.

Callers reporting faults to NTL were greeted with a recorded message, in a Geordie accent, that was strewn with four-letter expletives.

Park here and walk up the grassy boulder and rock strewn hillside to look for the 3 key birds of this area.

However there was still much rubbish strewn around the site.

Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

From the map it will be noticed that the largest and most thickly strewn lakes occur within five hundred or a thousand miles of Hudson Bay, and belong to the Archean protaxis or project beyond its edges into the Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks which lean against it.

Strewn around are numerous exposed shells and bren gun carriers among other debris.

For a quarter of an hour, I trod this blazing sand, which was strewn with tiny crumbs of seashell.

Tall conical pinnacles arose across the valley, their shale strewn haunches plunging down into the depths of the ravine.

These are big strands but there's other jetsam strewn across this beach, disjecta membra.

The quiet corner strewn, as usual, with used prophylactics and the crumpled elbows of well-finished roaches.

The pair bolted up the walls of the large boulder strewn passage near the main junction.

We had to drive through many floods seeing a washed up vehicle and tons of rocks and rubble strewn across the roads.

Finally we wish to thank Bob Everly, local beach warden, without whom Sand Bay would be litter strewn.

A few of the mouths of the smaller canals are kept open so as to receive a limited supply of water at the rise of the river in May, which then distributes itself over the lower lying lands in the interior, almost without labour on the part of the cultivators, giving birth in such localities to the most abundant crops, but by far the larger portion of the region between the rivers is at present an arid howling wilderness es dotted with tels or ruin-heaps, strewn in the most part with broken pottery, the evidence of former habitation, and bearing nothing but the camel-thorn, the wild caper, the colocynth-apple, wormwood and other weeds of the desert.

The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.

There are many furrows in the sand where some creature has travelled about and doubled on its tracks; and, for wrecks, it is strewn with the cases of caddis-worms made of minute grains of white quartz.

In the bathroom the tub is filled with dark liquid, clothes strewn about on floor.

Thick carpet lay underfoot and cushions were strewn liberally over the floor.

They lay in a muddy field, bodies strewn everywhere.

The remains of the factory gate were strewn all over the bottom of the mountain of rubble.

Ten minutes later with your dirty laundry strewn across the airport floor you find them !

Places that are strewn with litter and rotting rubbish attract vermin and disease.

The descent can be damp and the base is strewn with rubbish.

The path to grace, however, is strewn with obstacles.

Are instruments and equipment arranged methodically or strewn about?

In the alpine tracts of the north the narrowness of the valleys and the steep stony slopes strewn with debris, on which only lichens and mosses are able to grow, make every plot of green grass (even if it be only of Carex) valuable.

The steppe for miles around was strewn with corpses, and the Cossacks are said to have reaped io,000,000 guldens worth of booty when the fight was over.

The valleys of the Salt river and its affluents, the Agua Fria, Verde and Tonto, are strewn with aboriginal remains; but especially important in migrations of culture was the Little Colorado.

The coarser materials settle nearer the land, and the shallower portions of the sea floor are strewn with gravel and sand, except in occasional depressions and near the mouths of rivers where mud may gather.

From boulder strewn floor many boulder strewn floor many boulder mazes lead off including a ' z alley ' .

At Bodega Bay on November 29th at least 100 fed on debris strewn over the beach by the storm.