bestrew
verb (used with object)
to strew or cover (a surface).
bestrewed
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past participleof bestrew.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof bestrew.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
bestrewverb (used with object)to strew or cover (a surface).
Example Sentences
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Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017
Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015
Not only was Flappy Bird by far the No. 1 free app on both the iPhone and Android app stores, but blatant rip-offs like Flappy Plane, Fly Birdie, and Ironpants bestrewed the top 50.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2014
Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor; other books lay about grimy and black, looking as if they had never been opened.
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Conrad, Joseph
