STREWN in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for STREWN, such as:

1. The clothes were strewn on the grass.
2. They had strewn the ground with rushes.
3. This dry summer the path was strewn with stones.
4. The front room was strewn with books and clothes.
5. He pictured the ground before it as strewn with the discomfited.

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1  He sees all ocean strewn with Aeneas' fleet, the Trojans overwhelmed by the waves and the ruining heaven.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
2  In them he stood to face great Alcides; to them was I used while fuller blood supplied me strength, and envious old age had not yet strewn her snows on either temple.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
3  Here then, likewise seeking an answer, lord Latinus paid fit sacrifice of an hundred woolly ewes, and lay couched on the strewn fleeces they had worn.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
4  Look now first on this overhanging cliff of stone, where shattered masses lie strewn, and the mountain dwelling stands desolate, and rocks are rent away in vast ruin.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
5  All about they see bodies strewn along the grass in drunken sleep, chariots atilt on the shore, the men lying among their traces and wheels, with their armour by them, and their wine.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
6  Shouts run all along the battlemented walls; ringing bows are drawn and javelin thongs twisted: all the ground is strewn with missiles.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
7  Hale sat with his feet up on the stove, his back propped against a battered desk strewn with papers: the place, like the man, was warm, genial and untidy.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  She laid both hands on Gerty's shoulders, with a smile that was like sunrise on a sea strewn with wreckage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  He pictured the ground before it as strewn with the discomfited.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  He believed he envied those men whose bodies lay strewn over the grass of the fields and on the fallen leaves of the forest.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  He could see the forms of men throwing black shadows in the red light, and as he went nearer it became known to him in some way that the ground was strewn with sleeping men.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
12  Nor was the fear entirely an illusion, for the barren valley was thickly strewn with trees and boulders which had fallen in a similar manner.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
13  The clothes were strewn on the grass.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
14  They had strewn the ground with rushes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
15  This dry summer the path was strewn with stones.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence:
1  The front room was strewn with books and clothes.