The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bestrew \Be*strew"\, v. t. [imp. Bestrewed; p. p. Bestrewed,
Bestrown (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bestrewing.]
To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. [Spelt also
bestrow.]
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of bestrew English)
Usage examples of "bestrewing".
To prove his point, he snatched up one of the two dozen comic books bestrewing the counterpane and held it so that his mother might see its garish cover and know herself to be caught and shamed in a lie.
By and by came the unsparing train-boy on his rounds, bestrewing the passengers successively with papers, magazines, fine-cut tobacco, and packages of candy.
He conveyed the impression that the collection of documents, books, telephones, and other paraphernalia bestrewing his table had reduced him to a state of stupor.
Her prime weaknesses, aside from the habit of prosaic disillusionment, are a tendency toward erroneous geography and history and a fatal predilection for bestrewing her novels with insipid little poems, attributed to one or another of the characters.