Strewn Sentence Examples

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  • All of the luggage was still strewn about the room.

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  • The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood-yard, and the ground was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black.

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  • Nothing was seriously damaged, simply strewn about.

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  • Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.

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  • The houses were scrupulously clean and strewn with sweet herbs.

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  • As a perfume it was strewn in Greek halls, courts and theatres, and in the Roman baths.

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  • In short, Tunisia is as much strewn with Roman remains as is Italy itself.

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  • Straw was strewn over the floor at the farther end.

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  • He motioned for me to follow and led me tip toeing over the stone strewn yard to the cabin.

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  • When the trail stopped at the edge of a rock strewn clearing, Carmen continued.

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  • A bird sits on the next bough, life-everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and strawberry leaves are strewn about.

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  • All its neighbourhood is strewn with kurgans (tumuli).

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  • Hence their bottoms are generally ice-worn or strewn over with moraine stuff.

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  • The city is built on the flat summit of a rocky hill, which rises abruptly in the midst of a veritable wilderness; a brown, arid, treeless table-land, strewn with immense grey boulders, and shut in by lofty mountains.

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  • The thoughts of the carelessly discarded bodies he'd strewn across American were inescapable.

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  • It was strewn with loose gravel and stone, with occasional clumps of hardy vegetation mixed with larger boulders.

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  • In the majority of cases the cremation ashes are strewn or buried in the gardens of remembrance.

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  • Victorian and Edwardian Britain is strewn with the evidence of philanthropic and state benefaction.

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  • In other places, landslide debris was strewn across the road barring the way.

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  • Callers reporting faults to NTL were greeted with a recorded message, in a Geordie accent, that was strewn with four-letter expletives.

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  • Park here and walk up the grassy boulder and rock strewn hillside to look for the 3 key birds of this area.

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  • However there was still much rubbish strewn around the site.

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  • There are many furrows in the sand where some creature has travelled about and doubled on its tracks; and, for wrecks, it is strewn with the cases of caddis-worms made of minute grains of white quartz.

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  • Toward night candles were burning round his coffin, a pall was spread over it, the floor was strewn with sprays of juniper, a printed band was tucked in under his shriveled head, and in a corner of the room sat a chanter reading the psalms.

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  • In the alpine tracts of the north the narrowness of the valleys and the steep stony slopes strewn with debris, on which only lichens and mosses are able to grow, make every plot of green grass (even if it be only of Carex) valuable.

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  • From the map it will be noticed that the largest and most thickly strewn lakes occur within five hundred or a thousand miles of Hudson Bay, and belong to the Archean protaxis or project beyond its edges into the Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks which lean against it.

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  • Strewn around are numerous exposed shells and bren gun carriers among other debris.

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  • For a quarter of an hour, I trod this blazing sand, which was strewn with tiny crumbs of seashell.

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  • Tall conical pinnacles arose across the valley, their shale strewn haunches plunging down into the depths of the ravine.

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  • These are big strands but there's other jetsam strewn across this beach, disjecta membra.

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  • The quiet corner strewn, as usual, with used prophylactics and the crumpled elbows of well-finished roaches.

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  • The pair bolted up the walls of the large boulder strewn passage near the main junction.

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  • We had to drive through many floods seeing a washed up vehicle and tons of rocks and rubble strewn across the roads.

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  • Finally we wish to thank Bob Everly, local beach warden, without whom Sand Bay would be litter strewn.

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  • A few of the mouths of the smaller canals are kept open so as to receive a limited supply of water at the rise of the river in May, which then distributes itself over the lower lying lands in the interior, almost without labour on the part of the cultivators, giving birth in such localities to the most abundant crops, but by far the larger portion of the region between the rivers is at present an arid howling wilderness es dotted with tels or ruin-heaps, strewn in the most part with broken pottery, the evidence of former habitation, and bearing nothing but the camel-thorn, the wild caper, the colocynth-apple, wormwood and other weeds of the desert.

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  • The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.

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  • In the bathroom the tub is filled with dark liquid, clothes strewn about on floor.

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  • Thick carpet lay underfoot and cushions were strewn liberally over the floor.

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  • They lay in a muddy field, bodies strewn everywhere.

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  • The remains of the factory gate were strewn all over the bottom of the mountain of rubble.

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  • Ten minutes later with your dirty laundry strewn across the airport floor you find them !

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  • Places that are strewn with litter and rotting rubbish attract vermin and disease.

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  • The descent can be damp and the base is strewn with rubbish.

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  • The path to grace, however, is strewn with obstacles.

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  • Are instruments and equipment arranged methodically or strewn about?

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  • The steppe for miles around was strewn with corpses, and the Cossacks are said to have reaped io,000,000 guldens worth of booty when the fight was over.

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  • The valleys of the Salt river and its affluents, the Agua Fria, Verde and Tonto, are strewn with aboriginal remains; but especially important in migrations of culture was the Little Colorado.

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  • The coarser materials settle nearer the land, and the shallower portions of the sea floor are strewn with gravel and sand, except in occasional depressions and near the mouths of rivers where mud may gather.

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  • From boulder strewn floor many boulder strewn floor many boulder mazes lead off including a ' z alley ' .

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  • At Bodega Bay on November 29th at least 100 fed on debris strewn over the beach by the storm.

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  • At least 10 bodies lay strewn around the burning wreckage.

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  • The French, who had ceased firing at this field strewn with dead and wounded where there was no one left to fire at, on seeing an adjutant riding over it trained a gun on him and fired several shots.

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  • We stumbled like idiots along 100m of passage strewn with huge boulders without once seeing the roof.

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  • Past a spacious chamber on the left through a low stony scramble into an unpleasant crawling passage strewn with flood debris.

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  • The floor area of the pen may be bare concrete or wood, or possibly strewn with straw or shavings.

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  • There was a cellar down below which the lads were covering with old blankets they had found strewn around.

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  • The most effective vehicle theft deterrent is to leave empty.45 shells strewn across the dashboard.

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  • If there are neighboring apartment buildings, note any graffiti on the buildings or trash strewn on the lawns.

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  • While you can go to your local book store and pick up a word search book-and you know there are plenty to choose from-you can also find free online word searches strewn across the Internet.

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  • Fake snow can be sprayed on the corners of the windows for a wintry scene, and small evergreen boughs can be randomly strewn on table tops for color.

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  • For example, clean seashells in and strewn around the cake offer a perfect touch for a beach wedding.

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  • But it's not all gorgeous cell-shaded scenery and secret items strewn about the land.

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  • While pizza is always a student staple, a table strewn with pizzas tends to downplay the celebratory nature of the graduation party.

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  • This romantic fantasy includes variations on a theme of being rescued, rose-petal strewn bed sheets, dancing in the moonlight and being seduced by a total stranger.

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  • Though Dooney & Bourke bags are best recognized for their initial strewn fabric purses, the company manufactures much more than monogram handbags.

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  • Walk into your child's bedroom, the basement or playroom and you might find toys strewn all over the floor calling out for kids' storage help.

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  • Stories are told of graves being dug up and remains being strewn around the cemetery.

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  • If you're looking for fancy visualization patterns while listening to songs, want support for rare file types or want to create a playlist of songs strewn throughout your hard drive, 1by1 may not be for you.

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  • The whole island is strewn with natural basaltic prisms, some of great size; and of this material, brought by boats or rafts from a distance of 30 m.

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  • The willows are cut at the first indication of the sap rising and "couched" in rotten peelings and soil at a slight angle, the butts being on the ground, which should be strewn with damp straw from a manure heap. The tops are covered lightly with rotted peelings and by periodical application of water, fermentation is induced at the bottom, heat is engendered, the leaves force their way through the covering and peeling may begin.

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  • As a result of the geological causes just mentioned many parts of Canada are lavishly strewn with lakes of all sizes and shapes, from bodies of water hundreds of miles long and a thousand feet deep to ponds lost to sight in the forest.

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  • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words, quagmires and pits, steep hills, dark and horrible glens, soft vales, sunny pastures, a gloomy castle, of which the courtyard was strewn with the skulls and bones of murdered prisoners, a town all bustle and splendour, like London on the Lord Mayor's Day, and the narrow path, straight as a rule could make it, running on up hill and down hill, through city and through wilderness, to the Black River and the Shining Gate.

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  • The forest to the north was afire, the dead strewn around the north and south walls.

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  • Beyond the wall line on that side vestiges of ancient buildings are visible in various directions, and the plain is strewn with fragments of bricks, tiles and rubbish.

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  • Eastwards it penetrated up the Uzboi depression between the Great and Little Balkhan ranges, so that that depression, which is strewn (as mentioned above) with Post-Tertiary marine deposits, was not (as is sometimes supposed) an old bed of the Oxus, but a gulf of the Caspian.

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  • The Lakes of the Plains lie in hollows of the glacial detritus which is strewn so thickly over the lower grounds.

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  • A great variety of bronze decorations and glazed clay pearls were strewn round the skeletons.

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  • He had what appeared to be every item of clothing he owned strewn around the room.

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  • She lay down on the pebble- strewn dirt, wondering if death was anything like living in the catacombs.

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  • Barley meal 1 was strewn on its neck, and a lock of hair cut from its forehead and burned.

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  • The Camoens grotto, where the exiled poet found leisure to celebrate the achievements of his ungrateful country, lies in a secluded spot to the north of the town, which has been partly left in its native wildness strewn with huge granite boulders and partly transformed into a fine botanical garden.

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  • Bubastis, capital of the 19th nome of Lower Egypt, is now represented by a great mound of ruins called Tell Basta, near Zagazig, including the site of a large temple (described by Herodotus) strewn with blocks of granite.

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  • Since that time the ruins have served as quarries for bricks for the building of Nejef, and at the present time little remains but holes in the ground, representing excavations for bricks, with broken fragments of brick and glass strewn over a considerable area.

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