How to Use strew in a Sentence

strew

verb

• She strewed the birdseed on the ground.
• Rocks and stones cracked by the fire's heat are strewn about.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
• The menorah was smashed and its pieces strewn around the area.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 19 Feb. 2024
• Steve Hunt: And on the floor was Cathy's purse, with the contents … strewn about.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2023
• Many of the broken shards were strewn all over the floor, along with piles of trash.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
• Dancers shook their asses on the main stage and in pole pits strewn with cash.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• This part of the house seems like the only place where anything gets strewn.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
• The way back from the graveside to the wider world is strewn with petals fallen from the flower of love.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Dozens of homes had slipped out to sea or been torn apart, the rubble strewn from land to shore.
  — Louisa Loveluck, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Parts of the aircraft and its four motors were strewn across a wide swath.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Bodies were shown strewn on the ground, and in the footage panicked people ran from the scene.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
• Video showed the inside of the cathedral strewn with debris.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 23 July 2023
• Or an orchard full of apples, some strewn around the ground?
  — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2023
• Contents of the building were strewn around the aluminum seats.
  — Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• Images of the scene show her belongings strewn on the street.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 25 Jan. 2024
• Trash was strewn about the cell, and the toilet was filled with excrement.
  — Lyndsay Winkley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2023
• The bodies were strewn across different parts of the house, Knight said.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Soldiers sorted through the corpses strewn around the grounds—many of them burned and blackened.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• Broken glass is strewn across the tile floor in the entryway.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• Pieces of the home, including its roof, were strewn about the street by daylight.
  — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• Even the small gap between the jams was strewn with obstacles.
  — Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
• Not here, in this dusty field strewn with dead people wrapped in blankets and zipped up in body bags.
  — TIME, 28 Oct. 2023
• Roofs were blown off homes, furniture, fences and debris were strewn about during the height of the storm in the South.
  — Kathy McCormack, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2024
• Some versions show the person passed out on a playground, in a tree or strewn across a car hood.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 28 June 2023
• Their house is often strewn with toys and art supplies.
  — Caitlin Gibson, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• The string of islands was a hub of piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the seabed is strewn with shipwrecks from treasure fleets.
  — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
• Piles of bodies were strewn all over her neighbors’ lawns.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• The space around her was strewn with pastel macarons, tartlets, and bonbons.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2024
• An open area near a mosque was left strewn with the shoes of the dead and wounded, TV footage and videos on social media showed.
  — Abdul Sattar The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2023
• The ground, covered in tarps, is strewn with olives most days and a man sorts olives in a makeshift shaker out of the back of a tiny pickup truck.
  — Clive Pursehouse, Outside Online, 21 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Jun 2024