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strewn

/stɹun/ adjective C2
  1. Covered, scattered or overspread with objects.
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Barnicot was due at his surgery at twelve o’clock, and you can imagine his amazement when, on arriving there, he found that the window had been opened in the night and that the broken pieces of his second bust were strewn all over the room.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 70 · C1
On that side a ridge of rocks ended in a sheer cliff which overlooked a stone-strewn slope.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 165 · C1
Now and then a jolt more violent than the rest caused him to open his eyes; then he felt that he was still being carried with great rapidity over the same country, thickly strewn with broken aqueducts, which looked like granite giants petrified while running a race.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1068 · C1

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