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

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Examples

  • So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN A DAY OF BLOOD AND FIRE The glassy knife bestrews a rain of blood to slake the ghoulish thirst,

    Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968

  • We ought to give some idea of the odd instances, classic and other, with which Montaigne plentifully bestrews his pages.

    Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

  • Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

    A Hero of Our Time 1916

  • We depart -- the only two living beings to be seen in that unreal and miasmal place, that village which bestrews the earth and lies under our feet.

    Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904

  • So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

    Tropic Days 1887

  • Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.

    A Hero of Our Time Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov 1827

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