was strewing
- past progressive of strew.
Example Sentences
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Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When she came back from talking to the invisibilities, Brave Orchid saw that her sister was strewing the room.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
During this conversation, l'Encuerado, as active as a monkey, had clambered up a pine, and his machete was strewing the ground with slender boughs.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker
It was Eva Poindexter, the girl I—And she was strewing flowers on Evelyn's grave.
From The Circular Study by Green, Anna Katharine
I suffered them yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, when I was strewing manure.
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
