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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bestrew .
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Examples
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So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.
Tropic Days 2003
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.
Tropic Days 1887
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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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