When you strew something, you scatter it all over the place. At a wedding, for example, the flower child's job is to strew the path with petals.
What does it mean to be strewn?
1 : to spread by scattering. 2 : to cover by or as if by scattering something strewing the highways with litter. 3 : to become dispersed over as if scattered.
How do you use strewn in a sentence?
Strewn Sentence Examples
- All of the luggage was still strewn about the room.
- 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.
- Nothing was seriously damaged, simply strewn about.
