strew
verb (used with object)
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle.
have been strewing
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present perfect progressiveof strew.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Almost as one, Britons cried "foul" at the insults and distortions Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin have been strewing around Burma and India.
From Time Magazine Archive
Had I played out my part, by this time I should have been strewing the stage with a mock supper.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
