And when it is over, the girl rubs herself over with red earth, and strews finely powdered red earth on the ground, before she leaves the hut where she has been shut up.
Take away the name and the grave will seem to be a bridal-bed over which Aurora spreads her golden canopy and spring strews her fairest flowers.
Thou'lt visit lands that war's wild train Had crushed with careless heed; Now smiling peace salutes the plain, And strews the golden seed.
It is evident by the obstacles she strews in my path that fate must have designed me for a great man.
We turn our eyes from this place towards the lowly house with the grass-turf roof, where the little lamb crops the grass under the cherry-tree, which strews its fragrant leaves over it.
He that strews red shall gather white, He that sows white reap red, Before your face and my daughter's Meet in a marriage-bed.
The CHILD IN WHITE strews the spruce branches on the floor so that a green path is formed to the edge of the trap-door.
The CHILD IN WHITE picks several water-lilies to pieces and strews them on the cradle, which he finally kisses before he descends into the tarn again.
Trafalgar strews the sea with the wrecks of France, and Austerlitz strews the land with the wrecks of Russia and Austria.
Here we at once found, and found in situ for the first time, the chalcedony which strews the seaboard-flat.
He lifts me to the golden doors; The flashes come and go; All heaven bursts her starry floors, And strews her lights below, And deepens on and up!
September strews the woodland o'er With many a brilliant color; The world is brighter than before,-- Why should our hearts be duller?
THE CHILD (while she strews primroses) No one whose heart is heavy with human tears Can cross these little cressets of the wood.
MAIRE BRUIN goes over to the window and takes flowers from the bowl and strews them outside the door.
Nature strewsher nuts and flowers broadcast, and never collects them into heaps.
Even the storm lulls to more profound repose: The storm these humble walls assails in vain: Screen'd is the lily when the whirlwind blows, While the oak's stately ruin strews the plain.
He then silently strews perfumes, blossoms, resin, and betel leaves, as the funeral cake, and places a lighted lamp on it.
In the next place he strews grass over the funeral cake, and sprinkles water on it, reciting this prayer: "Waters!
Then in a brazen helmet he takes the dragon’s teeth,[17] and strews them over the ploughed up fields.
The hail that strews the battle-field Not louder sounds its call, Than the falling thousands round us Are voicing words to all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strews" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
