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Recent Examples of strew
Aerial footage of the scene, shared by multiple local news outlets, showed a broken guardrail and debris strewn across the roadway.
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Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
The muscular and eye-catching facade, with its four rows of arched windows strewn across the middle section, feels both historic and strikingly modern.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2025
Many of the buildings show the scars of the years of conflict — windows blown out and boarded up, chunks of rubble strewn around from shells hitting concrete.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Local roads and back streets are strewn with risk and unpredictability.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
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Abigail Adams, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
The muscular and eye-catching facade, with its four rows of arched windows strewn across the middle section, feels both historic and strikingly modern.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2025
Many of the buildings show the scars of the years of conflict — windows blown out and boarded up, chunks of rubble strewn around from shells hitting concrete.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
Local roads and back streets are strewn with risk and unpredictability.
—Brooke Crothers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for strew
Verb
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Each machine has two or three spray arms, at least one on the bottom and one on the top: This is where the detergent-y water comes from.—
Ellen Cushing,
The Atlantic,
14 Apr. 2025
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Stock Hill, south of the Plaza 7 critical violations for a March 31 routine inspection 4800 Main St. Inside steakhouse’s kitchen, spray bottles full of chemicals were not marked with the name of the substance, according to the inspector.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
14 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Push the button and voila – exactly the right flavorings are sprinkled down into your recipe.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
7 Apr. 2025
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Not exactly despair, but resignation set in, as though sheltering in the basement and sprinkling the children with holy water were to be the accommodating ministrations.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2025
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Stray disposable plates and cups dot the apartment.—
David Bezmozgis,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2025
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Mounds of garbage bags, some several feet high, dot the red-brick streets like pins on a corkboard.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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Then, on Monday, a series of billboards advertising the album peppered the main roads into Stillwater, where Turnpike co-headlines this weekend with Ragweed for more than 180,000 ticketholders.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
11 Apr. 2025
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That was apparent even in the first period, as the Canucks — a team that’s struggled enormously all season to generate looks and scoring chances — peppered their old teammate DeSmith with all manner of quality chances.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Strew.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/strew. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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