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• n  the act of scattering
• v  spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic)
• v  cover; be dispersed over

• Rumsfeld has lately kept busy strewing political wreckage on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
• The speaker is Billy Brown, a dissident space-project physicist, and not since Humbert Humbert toured America with Lolita, strewing outrageous verbal brickbats along the way, has .
• After forcing the employees to open the vault, the robbers rifled trays of uncut gems and antique Indian jewelry, strewing less valuable items on the floor.

• scatter
• scattering
• strew
• straw

News & Articles

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• Report: 2 dead in UPS plane crash near Alabama airport
  A UPS cargo plane slammed into a field and burst into flames near an Alabama airport Wednesday, killing the pilot and co-pilot and strewing debris for hundreds of yards, authorities said.
  Aug. 14, 2013 - KSDK St. Louis

Quotes

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• Gordon Campbell in Globe and Mail
  Candidly, one of the things I learned is the Opposition is not capable of dealing with an important issue without strewing it with personal attacks and partisanship,Mr. Campbell said in an interview. "They have been opposed to it, we've...