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• She has a slew of papers and notebooks strewn all over her desk.From the entry slew
• The floor of the sculptor's studio was strewn with chips of marble.From the entry chip
• Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.From the entry strewn
• The papers were carelessly strewn on the table.From the entry carelessly
• Rubbish was strewn about the place.From the entry about
• An Easter basket that now had Easter grass strewn all over the place. (Note to self!2013, Cara Lynn Jakab, The Power of a Playing Parent: Engaging and Connecting with our children, →ISBN. From the entry Easter grass
• Finally, whiggish narratives, strewn with heroes, only hinder understanding of how the world works.2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry whiggish
• Rusted watertanks in a yard strewn with trashpapers the wind had left.1998, Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain. From the entry trashpaper
• He invokes the classic dried herbs de Provence as an inherited license to strew greens willy-nilly.1995 December 4, Gael Greene, “To Grand-mère’s House”, in New York, page 151. From the entry herbs de Provence
• We climbed the ladder into the loft that was strewn with farming implements and with carpenting tools.1983, D. H. Lawrence, Andrew Robertson, James T. Boulton, The White Peacock, page 237. From the entry carpenting
• Finally the street is strewn with pozzolana to prevent the horses from slipping on the smooth paving.1962, WH Auden; Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 450. From the entry pozzolana
• Christmas rose (black hellebore), strewn on the floor or burned, drove away witches.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 272. From the entry black hellebore
• Samway trod was not strewn with roses.2015, R. Austin Freeman, A Silent Witness, →ISBN. From the entry it's a long road that has no turning
• Residents in Bolton are angry after workmen tarmaced only one half of their road leaving the other half strewn with potholes.2014, Taking the rough with the smooth: Bolton residents anger over half-tarmaced road, ITV Granada. From the entry tarmac
• Full-flavored onions are strewn over the top along with strips of anchovies and Niçoise olives, which are worth tracking down.2014, David Lebovitz, My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories, Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry Niçoise olive
• There are toys strewn across my once-pristine floors, goldfish crackers in my couch cushions, and empty juice boxes in my car.2013, Erin MacPherson, The Christian Mama's Guide to Having a Baby. From the entry mommy
• The floor, the pews, the stripped-bare altar are strewn with leaves, twigs, orange needles from the blasty boughs of spruce trees.2010, Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir. From the entry blasty
• We strewed the contents of the box across the bench and clawed through them to find other images of Sando.2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, p.71. From the entry noseride
• In Viking Man's apartment, a large closet he's made into a movie library is strewn with reels of film.2007, Steve Erickson, chapter 68, in Zeroville: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Open Road…. From the entry sargasso
• They would awaken in the morning to find bookcases turned over, furniture strewn about, the entire living room in a mess.2006, Brad Steiger, Revelation: The Divine Fire, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry poltergeistic
• Her damp hair was strewn like a cat-o'-nine-tails across her laughing face, her coral-tipped breasts jigglingly upheld by the water.1999, Steve Stern, The wedding jester. From the entry jigglingly
• As she is driven through the village, the children of the tenantry must strew the road with daisies.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry tenantry
• From the north, the road into Nigeria’s purpose-built capital is strewn with inselbergs, vast monolithic stone outcrops that rise abruptly out of the lush savannah.2015 July 24, William Wallis, “What is next for Nigeria?”, in Financial Times. From the entry inselberg
• Charlie is seated in a wheelchair, his head face down on the tray, food and liquid strewn all over the floor and nearby counter.1988 February 14, Marea Murray, “Friction Between The Factions”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 6. From the entry lose it
• The City is strewn with stillborn.1972, Peter Neill, chapter 11, in Mock Turtle Soup, New York, N.Y.: Grossman Publishers, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry gluttonly
• Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 35. From the entry headlong
• "Ar—cher—Ja—cob!" Johnny piped after her, pivoting round on his heel, and strewing the grass and leaves in his hands as if he were sowing seed.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter II, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry pipe
• As the rustling of dry leaves strewn in a flagged court when a sudden wind striketh them, there went a stir among the guests.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 10. From the entry flagged
• Residents there say bodies were strewn on the streets or left unburied in homes and on the roofs of buildings, with nobody able to collect them.2025 March 9, Malek Fouda, “More than 1,000 killed in Syria, most of them civilians, in sectarian violence”, in Euronews. From the entry strewn
• Sure, some dogs may get super-itchy and lose extra fur, while others may seem to groom themselves incessantly, leaving your floors strewn with serious dust bunnies.2016 August 30, Patty Khuly, “Dog shedding too much? Try these easy fixes”, in Miami Herald, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2016. From the entry dust bunny
• Old Buggy and Winter Birds shows a buggy parked in front of a drive shed, while cardinals, juncos, and song sparrows feed on grain strewn over the ground.2014, Robert Bateman, Bateman: New Works, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry drive shed
• Van Halen orders garlic strewn about Lucy's bedroom. she feels a bit chipperer the next morning, so Mina heads off to help poor Harker in Budapest.2013, Michelle Witte, Faker's Guide to the Classics, page 66. From the entry chipper
• The streets were strewn with rose petals, the ice company froze roses in huge blocks of ice, there was a grand parade with forty floats and eight bands.2008, Bailey White, “Almost Gone”, in Nothing with Strings: NPR’s Beloved Holiday Stories, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 188. From the entry Queen Elizabeth
• He also had a room strewn with the toys of the trade and what-have-you: ropes and ironmongery, buoyancy aid and bagpipes, fetid socks and half-eaten haggises, dumbbells and ski-instructor sweaters.1997, Pete McDonald, Climbing Lessons: Inside Outdoor Education, page 40. From the entry dumbbell
• Price sits down on a weathered tomb strewn with ivy and dead leaves, adjusts his blond bebanged Prince Valiant wig and glances at Ruddigore's Gothic arches heavily encrusted with skulls.1982, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (U.S.), Emmy. From the entry bebanged

Meaning of strew

1. verb To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.
2. verb To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered.
3. verb To spread abroad; to disseminate.

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How do you use strew in a sentence?

Strew is used as a verb. For example: “The files had been strewn all over the floor.”

What is a short sentence with strew?

“Leaves strewed the ground.”

What does strew mean?

Strew means to distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner.