Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: strewn
IPA transcription: [stɹ'un]
Usage examples
  • Soon he stumbled upon thickly strewn dry willow sticks.
  • Dead and dying they lay strewn for fifty feet along the turf.
  • In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn around.
  • Grass and leaves were strewn over the snares; chips, hewn branches, and other evidences of their work were removed.
  • In the red sunset, and in the white moonlight, heaps upon heaps of dead men lay strewn, a dreadful spectacle, all over the ground.
  • From my vantage point in the window I could see the bodies of her crew strewn about, although I could not make out what manner of creatures they might be.
  • A glance showed Alison that Marcia had placed her dresser and table close to the window and strewn them with photographs and toilet articles in lavish profusion.
  • "I never saw the like--what nonsense!" and she tried the third, out of which came a heap of pearls and diamonds, so that the floor of the cave was strewn with them.
  • The deeply indented shore was lined with a breadth of fine shining sand, softly lapped by the waves, and strewn with the small shells which had been inhabited by the first of created beings.
  • Most of the broad summit is comparatively level and thick sown with crystals, quartz, mica, hornblende, feldspar, granite, zircon, tourmaline, etc., weathered out and strewn closely and loosely as if they had been sown broadcast.