bestrew
to strew or cover (a surface).
to strew or scatter about.
to lie scattered over.
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How to use bestrew in a sentence
What a hecatomb of mouldering bones would bestrew those fields of ice!
Without any signs of dizziness or staggering, he walked between the boulders which bestrew the path.
The Wolf Cub | Patrick CaseyBrush over with butter and bestrew with sugar, cinnamon, and currants.
The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book | Victor HirtzlerChildren climb about its walls and windows; cockneys scratch their names, and picnic parties bestrew the grass with paper.
Highways and Byways in Surrey | Eric ParkerHe kept sending flowers, as if to bestrew the path of his retreat, which was never the path of a return.
The Pupil | Henry James
British Dictionary definitions for bestrew
/ (bɪˈstruː) /
(tr) to scatter or lie scattered over (a surface)
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