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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of strew.

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Examples

  • When a startlingly beautiful girl strews compliments you believe her.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • When a startlingly beautiful girl strews compliments you believe her.

    Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011

  • The journey began at the beginning of the first life, life which in making its journey M'nemaxa strews across the worlds behind it.

    A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

  • The barista grinds coffee for each cup and strews the measured grounds into a well with shiny silver walls and a fine-mesh screen at the bottom.

    The Magic Brewing Machine 2007

  • The barista grinds coffee for each cup and strews the measured grounds into a well with shiny silver walls and a fine-mesh screen at the bottom.

    The Magic Brewing Machine 2007

  • The barista grinds coffee for each cup and strews the measured grounds into a well with shiny silver walls and a fine-mesh screen at the bottom.

    The Magic Brewing Machine 2007

  • If this young lady, of her own free will, desires the restoration of this contract, as her letter would seem to imply, there is not a withered leaf which this autumn wind strews on the heath that is more valueless in my eyes.

    The Bride of Lammermoor 2008

  • [Plucks off the leaves of a mountain rose and strews them on the brook.]

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

  • It's not precisely what I think of as a thankless task, and certainly not in the same league as picking up the floor cloths which our dog Gypsy strews about the garden, and which will be carried back out again the very minute I've put them down to wipe muddy feet and paws.

    At this time of year I seem L. Lee Lowe 2006

  • [Plucks off the leaves of a mountain rose and strews them on the brook.]

    When We Dead Awaken 2008

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