The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
In my bachelor days, I had a small upright piano in my kitchen. It cost £10 from eBay plus £70 delivery. It was because I'd seen an old photo of Tom Waits - with dirty dishes, empty bottles, a hot plate, a coffee machine and a piano strewn with lyric sheets - and fallen in love with it.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.
Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.