Example Sentences

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One activist was dressed as a Nutcracker; another had strewn multicolored lights around her sign.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2019

The speakers he had strewn about his driveway carried his remarks down Colonial Terrace.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

In an e-mail to The Register-Herald, he said he thought it might have been a wind-blown fertilizer sack or trash that foxes had strewn around.

From Washington Times • Dec. 6, 2015

On my last visit I ate the most exquisite hand-chopped steak tartare, which he had strewn with mustard flowers.

From Newsweek

We spent the entire night sifting through our belongings, which the firemen had strewn around the bedroom or had gotten wet as they’d tried to fight the fire.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson