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strewing

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I heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it.

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Quick take

the act of scattering

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noun

the act of scattering

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for strewing.

Example sentences

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I heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it.

2

Then some MFC UI code, and more code written by MFC people that didn't care about strewing that dependency in places where it didn't belong.

3

Silicon Valley is really strewing shit up for the rest of us. I want a long term, viable career and all venture capitalists seem to be interested in is mining wealth from the industry until it's dead.

4

In unschooling circles, acquiring interesting books and materials and leaving them laying about for kids to find or ignore is called "strewing".

5

The hunters cloth some young lusty fellow in maids cloths, and strewing sweet odors on him, they set him right against the place where the Unicorn is, that the wind may carry away the smell to the wild beast.

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How do you use strewing in a sentence?

I heard once about a tire shop that drummed up business by strewing nails along the highway around it.

What does strewing mean?

the act of scattering

What part of speech is strewing?

strewing is commonly used as noun.