Example sentences for: strewn

How can you use “strewn” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "The junk yards of history are strewn with wreckage.

  • Miller's journey into the bowels of the war--through rubbled villages and fields strewn with rotting corpses--attains the surreal intensity that Francis Ford Coppola strove for in Apocalypse Now (1979), except without the self-conscious Golden Bough stabs at myth-making.

  • Many of the Balearic Islands are strewn with rocks and boulders, and these early peoples built simple stone houses and cleared fields by piling the stones into dividing walls.

  • It was “discovered” by the British in the 1930s, when this “beach of rocks,” strewn with extravagantly shaped eroded stacks, provided an inspirational refuge for writers and intellectuals.

  • The relish Versace brings to his clear vinyl dresses strewn with rhinestones, or to shiny-colored opaque ones punctuated with nifty cutouts, has traditional bravura and sprezzatura in it, suggesting Bernini at his most outré.


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