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- verb Past participle of
bestrew
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Examples
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Beneath the wide, arched ceiling so high that it faded away into shadows, a hundred and more of the kindred were gathered, garbed in velvet and silk, bestrewn with jewels, as glorious a court as any monarch could wish.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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Beneath the wide, arched ceiling so high that it faded away into shadows, a hundred and more of the kindred were gathered, garbed in velvet and silk, bestrewn with jewels, as glorious a court as any monarch could wish.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But that soccer ball is a shiny pink-and-silver confection of a thing, and those trains inevitably get tucked away in a twee little handbag and hooked over the handle of a bright pink stroller bestrewn with garlands of beads and ribbons (her own design, no less.)
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Has not the poetic legacy of the avant-garde already begun to resemble a blasted library, bestrewn with the unburied cadavers of lunatics and suicides — all the beautiful, but misguided, losers who have martyred themselves to untelevised revolutions?
Writing and Failure (Part 1) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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But that soccer ball is a shiny pink-and-silver confection of a thing, and those trains inevitably get tucked away in a twee little handbag and hooked over the handle of a bright pink stroller bestrewn with garlands of beads and ribbons her own design, no less.
Sugar and Spice 2007
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But that soccer ball is a shiny pink-and-silver confection of a thing, and those trains inevitably get tucked away in a twee little handbag and hooked over the handle of a bright pink stroller bestrewn with garlands of beads and ribbons her own design, no less.
Archive 2007-03-25 2007
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“We always do it on their way out -- you never know what can happen to someone who gets scared on their way into the bathroom,” said Kim, pointing to his hiding areas in the ceiling of the manmade, lantern-lit, rock and bamboo bestrewn recreation of a ninja village.
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Only a few looked inhabited -- lawns bestrewn with gadgets, excavations begun with small bulldozers and abandoned, Pack or Swarm or Family flags flying from the mainmasts.
Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives 2005
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You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake?
June 2005 2005
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You know how it is when to stay feels like an eternity of misery, even with the promise of a multi-tiered orchid-bestrewn imported from the UK chocolate wedding cake?
Bad luck 2005
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