bestrew
verb (used with object)
to strew or cover (a surface).
bestrewn
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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.
Example Sentences
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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017
What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Not many miles below, is a high sloping beach, picturesquely bestrewn with gigantic boulders which have in ages past rolled down from the hill-tops above.
From Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun.
From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow
Daa was a man of great eccentricity of appearance, tall and gaunt, with limbs flung wildly about, and his fine head recklessly bestrewn with disordered hair, grizzled and reddish.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
