(adv.) At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad.
(adv.) Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad.
(adv.) Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad.
(adv.) Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Between 70 and 80% of human Salmonella infections are contracted abroad, mainly outside the Nordic countries.
(2) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
(3) NK cells mediate their cytotoxicity against tumor cells through abroad array of cytotoxic and cytostatic proteins.
(4) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(5) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
(6) British citizens travelling or studying abroad for more than three months are being refused benefits on their return under new rules designed to crackdown on benefit tourism from eastern Europe .
(7) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
(8) Salinger stayed abroad for five months, mainly in Vienna.
(9) Last year more than 4,000 doctors took the first steps towards working abroad.
(10) I’ve seen Ukip both at home and abroad, and I’m sorry to say they’re pretty amateur.
(11) The Bank cited slower economic growth at home and abroad, especially in the UK's main export markets, as well as problems in the eurozone, and strains on the banking system.
(12) She finds indoor activities to discourage the kids from playing outside on the foulest days, and plans holidays abroad as often as possible – but still frets about what their years in Delhi may do to her children’s health.
(13) We might have a patient we can’t do anything for and we have to wait for them to die, knowing if they were abroad they could be saved.
(14) And there are many others who cannot leave teaching, and so will take their talent abroad, where they are valued much more highly.
(15) By encouraging (in effect, subsidising) ever more Britons to holiday abroad, extra runway capacity would probably harm rather than help the balance of payments.
(16) Several large-scale, observational epidemiologic studies in the United States and abroad have shown a strong independent inverse relation between HDL and CAD.
(17) BNP spokesman Simon Darby, said today that at first glance the list includes some people who are no longer members and some who have moved abroad.
(18) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.
(19) Four of the index cases had recently travelled abroad.
(20) Some 59% of voters said the UK's recent entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan had made them more reluctant to support military interventions by UK forces abroad.
Strew
Definition:
(v. t.) To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
(v. t.) To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground.
(v. t.) To spread abroad; to disseminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Strew with oregano and thyme leaves and drizzle with the pan juices.
(2) There is a further problem strewed across the path of repeal.
(3) Ester + Matt describe their fictional city as 'one part country, two parts awesome and everything about who they are' " – Green Wedding Shoes ignores the fact that most problems at a reception centre around in-law controversy and inappropriate best man behaviour, rather than how to strew bunting around your favourite converted barn.
(4) 8.05pm BST I didn't have time to bake but I have got a table strew with shop-bought treats and a dab of flour on my nose for authenticity.