Example Sentences

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He claims that he even has fun refolding clothes customers have strewn all over the floor and picking up discarded diapers and other trash from the parking lot.

From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022

They have strewn ideas to cut carbon emissions from transportation throughout the package.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2021

Rather than screaming at them to pick up the toys they have strewn on the floor, parents or teachers ask them to suggest their own way of tackling the problem.

From Economist • Jan. 9, 2014

Some manufacturers have strewn them with flowers or polka dots, but the steady demand is for the ubiquitous black number�as exciting as an American cheese sandwich.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I have finished another year," said God,    "In grey, green, white, and brown; I have strewn the leaf upon the sod, Sealed up the worm within the clod,    And let the last sun down."

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas