littering

present participle of litter

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for littering
Verb
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026
  • Refrain from kindling fires with debris or any other materials during an air quality alert.
    Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • How many of them will still be generating leads from those same ads in three years without continuing to pay for every single click?
    Landon Murie, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • As radio waves travel across the universe, interstellar gas muddies them, generating a characteristic delay in the signal that depends on frequency.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 26 June 2026
Verb
  • Just kidding, but seeing Angela’s team sweep Shamea’s at the Bailey Bowl basketball tournament was almost as satisfying as knowing Charles got to witness his former team’s historic win in person.
    Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 22 June 2026
  • Room was kidding, but someone inside Arrowhead Stadium on Saturday night had the power to make that happen.
    Pete Grathoff June 21, Kansas City Star, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
  • New church Less than a generation later, the Protestant Reformation transformed Christianity, dividing Europe and spawning brutal violence.
    Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Ahead, experts share their go-to methods for propagating a lemon tree the right way.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026
  • The young tender stems are also perfect for propagating.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 8 June 2026
Verb
  • To remain an entertainment capital demands consistent reinvention, the showroom’s neon glow begetting the nightclub’s flashing LEDs and so on and so forth.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 26 June 2026
  • War begetting still more war, like some deranged biblical prophecy.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • Facing long odds, Sydney commits to leading without reproducing the toxicity she’s witnessed from Carmy.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 25 June 2026
  • Weaving may be the world’s oldest way of reproducing information—and computing is poised to become its final one.
    Lua Vollaard, ARTnews.com, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • There is a quiet revolution going on in America, and definitely in Atlanta, in how contemporary men are fathering.
    Felicia Feaster, AJC.com, 18 June 2026
  • Shi was also alleged to have committed criminal offenses and violated Buddhist precepts by maintaining relationships with multiple women over a long period and fathering at least one child, according to a notice from the temple’s authority on its WeChat account at that time.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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