strew
verb (used with object)
to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle.
will strew
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future tenseof strew.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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We will strew all England, every morning, with bread-crumbs for you, will you but stay and help us to play at summer!
From Yet Again by Sir Max Beerbohm
Submissiveness is a desirable grace and one that will strew your pathway with peace.
From How to Live a Holy Life by Charles Ebert Orr
The pale primrose, that flower most like thy face; the blue-bell, like thy clear veins; and the leaf of eglantine, which is not sweeter than was thy breath; all these I will strew over thee.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 3 Books for Children by Mary Lamb
For the sake of some things That be now no more I will strew rushes On my chamber-floor, I will plant bergamot At my kitchen-door.
From Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay
And Proserpina will strew the flowers of foam that I may never see more—and then she will gather me.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
