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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ashes were scattered
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His ashes were scattered at sea.
be scattered over a wide area
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Parts of the plane were scattered over a wide area.
scatter cushion
scattered wreckage
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The equipment was used to clear the scattered wreckage of the two trains.
wreckage is strewn/scattered/spread
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The wreckage was strewn over a large area.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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She recognized none of the hangings, the furniture, the instruments scattered about .
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Coal carried by the freight train was scattered about in heaps.
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The marble floor was scattered about with individual rugs.
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The lifts are scattered about , and each one serves only selected floors.
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She went back out into the daylight and began to gather together some of the larger rocks that were scattered about .
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There was blood everywhere and fragments of bone, scattered about like chips of chalk in the puddles.
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Empty black plastic sacks are scattered about , together with piles of crumpled brown paper.
around
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There was blood all over the floor and rings scattered around .
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Strange-colored tailings ponds and old, rusted equipment are scattered around .
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Vern made for a bench in a concrete space with trees and shrubs scattered around in pots, and sat down.
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The worn, faded furniture, the dingy wallpaper, the papers scattered around , the smell of alcohol.
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Second-hand machinery was scattered around the yard with new parts and modifications arriving daily.
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But each one had actually hit one of the few rocks scattered around .
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There were plenty of books and magazines scattered around , but none seemed to relate to any academic studies she could identify.
everywhere
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Bits of wire and tin were scattered everywhere .
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These men were scattered everywhere , on the ground and also in buildings and tents.
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But what he had taken at first for raindrops on the wagon floor were actually pennies, halfpennies and farthings scattered everywhere .
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Waves up to 30 feet tore away the beachfront of the Huatulco Sheraton and other bays, leaving tree limbs scattered everywhere .
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There were huge gouges where the earth had been scooped out, and dirt scattered everywhere .
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Fresh gray dirt was scattered everywhere as evidence of our work.
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Books, letters, clothes, scattered everywhere .
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There are huge amounts of rubbish scattered everywhere and that is appalling.
over
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Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields, the main body of the plane had landed in one piece.
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The basins are scattered over 20,000 square miles and fed by underground rivers which extend through Nevada, Utah and California.
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Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor.
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It's called Oxford Artweek, it lasts a fortnight and has 200 sites scattered over the county.
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Stir in the parsley, then spoon into a serving dish and scatter over the remaining spring onions.
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It will have to serve more people scattered over a larger area.
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He has one of them, the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security.
widely
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The rocks were widely scattered in the process.
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Occasionally, the only possible controls are widely scattered or are unlikely to cooperate with a program that offers nothing in return.
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Most of our countries are very small and are widely scattered .
■ NOUN
area
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It will have to serve more people scattered over a larger area .
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Thirty-seven golf courses are scattered about the area .
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Natural resources were scattered over vast areas .
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At the other end of the scale of desirability are thinly scattered customers in remote areas , and those in poor neighbourhoods.
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A motley collection of tawdry items was scattered over an area at least four feet square.
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All windows were blown out and large pieces of metal and wood were scattered over a wide area .
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The police are scattered around the area with several pairs of squad cars and at least three Black Marias.
ash
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The New Zealanders, appropriately garbed in funereal black, arrive next week to scatter the ashes .
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There was initially an extreme reluctance to scatter the ashes .
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Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family's wishes.
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And his family are hoping to scatter Mr Corbett's ashes at Anfield, where his father Dennis also came to rest.
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The weather had turned a chill grey, and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires.
country
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Over eighty-five percent of these are scattered throughout the country in small villages and hamlets.
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The nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union was scattered among four new countries with few safeguards.
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There have been scattered strikes around the country , but this was by far the largest.
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Other transplant colonies are scattered throughout the country in places such as Alamos, Sonora and Puerto Vallarta.
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The rest are scattered throughout the country .
field
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Although parts were scattered over the surrounding fields , the main body of the plane had landed in one piece.
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They drove off the parliamentarians they scattered across the field .
floor
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Chunks of blue-green stuff flaked off and scattered over the floor .
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Bud Simmons got up, scattering recipes to the floor , and spoke in a low voice to Harry Nelson.
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He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs.
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As the cut tresses lay scattered on the floor by the chair, Heather scrutinized the effect in the mirror.
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The cigarettes scattered all around the floor .
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Basins and buckets were scattered on the floor next to boxes of plastic bags and rubber bands.
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The contents of all of them had been pulled out and scattered all over the floor .
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She didn't care that the clothes he had flung out of the night before were scattered on floor and chairs.
ground
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The diplomat proceeded to scatter crumbs on the ground and attract the attentions of sparrows and pigeons.
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Only a few blocks of white stone lay scattered on the ground in front of the Buddhas' huge niches.
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It smashed, and machinery scattered over the ground .
light
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A few scattered lights burned on the ridge of low hills as he arrived in the cove, long after nightfall.
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Finally, without scattered light or atmosphere to conduct and convect energy, shadow areas on the Moon are extremely cold.
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It takes more particles to scatter red light .
seed
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As the sun strikes their heads it plays for a while, scatters silver seed and dances away again, unnoticed.
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It spreads by roots and by a scattering of its seeds .
wind
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Eloise would be burnt and scattered to the winds , the evil dispersed, spread out, diluted.
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Today that team breaks up and scatters to the winds like a dandelion.
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Tonight, scatter half into the wind to the north, the south, the east and the west.
world
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The stuff is scattered all over the world , but it's coming.
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But the job losses will hit mostly sales and support staffs scattered throughout the world .
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The World Distribution of Volcanoes Volcanoes are not scattered randomly around the world.
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Sanderson, now 36, scattered her World Cup opponents in the opening round, launching a throw of 61.86 metres.
■ VERB
break
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The sea is potentially very destructive, with underwater remains being broken and scattered by currents, waves, or tidal action.
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The ice breaks , scattering water birds.
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Today that team breaks up and scatters to the winds like a dandelion.
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For a while he stood on the soft sand, watching the waves break and the sandpipers scatter under them.
lie
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Only a few blocks of white stone lay scattered on the ground in front of the Buddhas' huge niches.
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Today the last condor nests lie scattered on the ledges, and the last three birds left in the wild are males.
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They lay scattered here and there all over the yard, in the corn-house, smoke-house, and slave shanties.
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Their wounded had been generally removed, while the dead lay thickly scattered in all directions and positions.
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Plates and barbells lie scattered in lazy profusion.
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As the cut tresses lay scattered on the floor by the chair, Heather scrutinized the effect in the mirror.
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Empty gasoline containers lay scattered around her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a scattering of sth
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Its only feature was a scattering of red shale; as a reaction I began to superimpose pictures.
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Now all that remains are slowly rotting stumps and a scattering of 20-to 30-year-old suckers.
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Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich even drew a scattering of boos.
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The character of most parks depends substantially on a scattering of trees - whether individually or in clumps.
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There was a scattering of greenhouses on the site, a few more wooden sheds, and several pigeon coops.
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Today they exist in a scattering of settlements on the outskirts of Phoenix and Tucson.
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When he let loose the light chain, he located himself in a scattering of white papers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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At the sound of gunfire, the crowd scattered in all directions.
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Soldiers used tear gas to scatter the crowd.
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The demonstrators suddenly turned and scattered in all directions.
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The storm scattered tiles everywhere.
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There was a sudden crack of gunfire, and the crowd scattered.
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When a police van drove by, the boys scattered.
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Why don't you scatter a few cushions around the room?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And there may be a few scattered works where applause would just feel wrong.
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I suppose they were rallying the scattered army.
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Small Whites scatter through the flowery headlands and in this light seem to have an almost violet glow about them.
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The central green had cars scattered all around it.
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Then they scattered, stopping to read in the middle of Congress Street one name and then the other.
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Today the last condor nests lie scattered on the ledges, and the last three birds left in the wild are males.
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Valleys in the Yorkshire Dales are scattered with dozens of these field barns, virtually all disused.