strew
verb (used with object)
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle.
strews
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present tense formof strew (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Then junior year comes along and strews the floor with trip wires that forces entire families to navigate them all in a fog of perpetual exhaustion and hastily prepared and erratically timed meals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Her descriptions of food, decor, and clothing are precise: the way Kristin strews juniper and flowers on the floor to prepare for guests, and her blue-violet leather shoes “stitched with silver and rose-color stones.”
From Slate ● Jan. 11, 2017
Among the best reasons to come to “The Art of Contoversy” is that as it rolls along, Mr. Navasky strews, like breadcrumbs, a minimemoir of his own busy life and times.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2013
In Act 2, rubble from the wrecked proscenium strews the stage, the remnants of the Minstrels' Hall in the Wartburg castle, where Tannhaeuser takes part in a song contest.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 13, 2010
In the Œdipus of Sophocles, the chorus implore Minerva to preserve them from that divinity, which, without sword or buckler, strews the Theban streets with corpses, and is more invincible than Mars himself.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
