Go, set the storm-winds free, / and sink their ships or scatter them astray, / and strew their corpses forth, to weltering waves a prey."

Tom is a bit scatterbrained.

The shards of thought were scattered on the ground.

The hungry cat scattered the trash all over the kitchen.

Strike force to the winds, sink and overwhelm the ships; or drive them apart and scatter their bodies on the sea."

... beholds Troy's navy scattered far and nigh, / and by the waves and ruining heaven oppressed / the Trojan crews. Nor failed he to espy / his sister's wiles and hatred.

The sudden noise scattered the birds.

Millions of human beings have laboured to create this civilization on which we pride ourselves today. Other millions, scattered through the globe, labour to maintain it. Without them nothing would be left in fifty years but ruins.

Scatter a little flour on the work surface.

Berber-speaking pockets are scattered all over Algeria.