littering

present participle of litter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for littering
Verb
  • Science builds on prior insights, and a handy repository of past advances serves as kindling for future discoveries.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Although no policies were violated, auditors recommended stronger vetting for revenue-generating contracts, which often escape scrutiny.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Versant last month filed its first financial reckoning with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and while the breakaway entity is still generating plenty of cash, the flow has been disrupted by the ongoing rash of customer defections.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Pat Kelsey wasn't kidding about wanting the smoke.
    Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In 2019, Lebanese depositors discovered that their banking system had, in effect, just been kidding about those savings accounts.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The count of spawning fall-run in the Sacramento River has fallen 95% in 20 years.
    Scott Artis, Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Such a blatant falsehood making it to the press conference betrays the fact that there is no limit to how false something has to be in order for this administration to resist propagating it.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
  • To develop a whole-virus vaccine, researchers must first spend months isolating and propagating the virus.
    Deborah Fuller, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The costs of reproducing living labor varied in response to struggle.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Without people in the loop, AI risks reproducing the inherent problems that it is meant to avoid, including discrimination, institutional incompetence and overall distrust.
    Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In June, the singer filed for a temporary restraining order and alleged that Wagner made false claims about living at her property, being in a relationship with her and fathering her child.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Josh O’Connor, at his filthy best, plays a disillusioned ’70s suburban dad married to Alana Haim and vaguely fathering a pair of pathologically chatty sons as the Vietnam War and its attendant protests color the world around them.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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