STREW in a Sentence
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16 example sentences for STREW, such as:
1. The earth was strewed with brains, arms, and legs.
2. It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
3. The decanters broken in pieces, and the fruits crushed, strewed the floor.
4. One bag of dried peas had burst and the peas strewed themselves into the street.
5. Preceding the bride to the altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle.
2. It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
3. The decanters broken in pieces, and the fruits crushed, strewed the floor.
4. One bag of dried peas had burst and the peas strewed themselves into the street.
5. Preceding the bride to the altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle.
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Meanings and Examples of STREW
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strew
v. spread randomly; sprinkle; scatter
Classic Sentence:
1 Some of your servants were to have private orders to strew a poisonous juice on your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh, and die in the utmost torture.
2 Rouse thy winds to fury, and overwhelm their sinking vessels, or drive them asunder and strew ocean with their bodies.
3 One bag of dried peas had burst and the peas strewed themselves into the street.
4 It was profusely strewed with the plunder of that unlucky fortress.
5 The tomahawk of Uncas, the blows of Hawkeye, and even the still nervous arm of Munro were all busy for that passing moment, and the ground was quickly strewed with their enemies.
6 He veiled a glance of disdain at his fellows who strewed the ground, choking with dust, red from perspiration, misty-eyed, disheveled.
7 On reaching the entrance to the forest she found the path strewed with ashes, and these she followed, throwing down some peas on either side of her at every step she took.
8 Beauchamp uttered an exclamation of surprise on seeing his friend leap over and trample under foot all the newspapers which were strewed about the room.
9 The earth was strewed with brains, arms, and legs.
10 The decanters broken in pieces, and the fruits crushed, strewed the floor.
11 Ulysses went back to his own place, and Eumaeus strewed some green brushwood on the floor and threw a sheepskin on top of it for Telemachus to sit upon.
12 And there, my sister was laid quietly in the earth, while the larks sang high above it, and the light wind strewed it with beautiful shadows of clouds and trees.
13 Clothes, saddles, reins, were all wet, slippery, and sodden, like the ground and the fallen leaves that strewed the road.
14 In all the temples was a band of matrons, in all were altars, and before the altars slain steers strewed the ground.
15 I passed the night under the shelter of a rock, strewing some heath under me, and slept pretty well.
Example Sentence:
1 Preceding the bride to the altar, the flower girl will strew rose petals along the aisle.