strew
verb (used with object)
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle.
has strewn
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present perfectof strew (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Early in the new film “Tár,” an eminent conductor, played by Cate Blanchett, has strewn classical LPs over her floor.
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
Ms. McKenzie has strewn her text with tiny photographs — precious at first, they eventually tell their own story — and she’s tacked on a long caboose of appendices, including one written in Norwegian.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2016
She has celebrated an escape into atheism, Paris and existentialism, and she has strewn a great deal of philosophical confetti over her famous non-wedding with Jean-Paul Sartre, her unembarrassable non-bridegroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bull has strewn cast-iron bulls around the Firehouse offices and wears a bull-studded tie.
From Time Magazine Archive
Beginning with the women's temperance conventions in 1848, she has strewn the gliding years with organizations, societies, conventions innumerable, to the wonderment, if not always to the admiration, of an observant world.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
