Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Anything strewed, or suitable to be strewed (for some special purpose).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of scattering or spreading.
- noun Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
scattering orspreading .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of scattering
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Examples
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They have committed various other infractions of international law, such as strewing the high seas and trade routes with mines, and British and neutral vessels will continue to run danger from this course, whether Germany abandons her submarine blockade or not.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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Whether it be the complete devastation wrought by nuclear weapons or an antique practice such as strewing salt in the earth of the defeated enemies, war is by its very nature destructive.
TreeHugger 2009
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Surrounded by the desert, which may as well be an ocean for its habit of devouring trespassers and strewing them on its edges broken and unrecognizable, William Creek is an island.
Kangaroo Dreaming Steve Himmer 2011
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As the huge balloon filled with air, it ripped from its mooring and dragged across the desert, crashing into and upturning a parked four-wheel-drive vehicle and strewing debris across a wide area before coming to a halt.
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He attempted to reach across the table and hold her hands, but she had cleverly guarded herself from such a move, by strewing knives and forks strategically on the table, causing Manickchandru to injure himself every time he attempted to reach across the table and hold her hands.
Sanguine Pizza 2009
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At half a mile distant the battleship blew up — simply blew up, that was all, her shattered frame sinking to the bottom of the bay, a riff-raff of wreckage and a few survivors strewing the surface.
Goliah 2010
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In the meantime, my living room looks like I'd just moved in what with half the furniture dragged into the middle and papers and junk strewing the rest of the floor.
Things that keep me from writing. p_n_elrod 2009
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Screaming indignantly the car rocketed down the drainage trench splashing water, strewing discarded beer cans and fast food wrappers back onto the hood of the Porsche, splattering mud.
Cucumbertini Larry Strattner 2011
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They spread organically, strewing seeds everywhere — some of which birth and some of which die.
Swarms are messy. 2009
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The closest any bird — angry or not — comes to throwing is the Egyptian vulture trying to break ostrich eggs by strewing rocks in their general direction.
Tracing Those Angry Birds to the Dawn of Man Matt Ridley 2011
tankhughes commented on the word strewing
This is a strategy used in unschooling practices and with PDA autism to provide potential activities for someone who would say no if you asked them without visual cues that it was already available to start. https://www.unschoolingmom2mom.com/strewing
April 3, 2023