Strewn

//stɹuːn//

"Strewn" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Do you see all those skeletons strewn around? Don't you think this fortune is unclaimed for a reason?

The floor was strewn with party favors: torn noisemakers, crumpled party hats, and dirty Power Ranger plates.

Those objects strewn about are a woman's "projection" of what is happening in her own life.

Her clothes were strewn about the room, and she found her hat at the foot of the bed.

Heaven keep us from a knowledge of the sights the moon beheld upon that field, when, coming up above the black line of distant rising-ground, softened and blurred at the edge by trees, she rose into the sky and looked upon the plain, strewn with upturned faces that had once at mothers' breasts sought mothers' eyes, or slumbered happily.

Don't leave your things strewn all over the floor.

Having these STD pamphlets strewn here on the coffee table sure is an inhibitor.

Clothes were strewn all over the floor.

Strewn here and there behold / arms, planks, lone swimmers in the surges grey, / and treasures snatched from Trojan homes away.

Wherever a loving hand had strewn bread crumbs for the birds, the little bird only ate one crumb and gave the rest away.

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Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.

The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.

Baniyas was one of the towns worst hit by the violence. Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.

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