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, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There's a lot of kindling around, and there's a lot of like newspapers that can catch on fire.
    Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, video-generating software like OpenAI’s Sora showcase the inevitability that AI content will funnel into the mainstream.
    Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But while the plants are generating increasingly widespread enthusiasm, dark events are beginning to overshadow the news.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • Just kidding - but honestly not sold on him being the best player on a championship caliber team.
    The Athletic NBA Staff, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The Aggies coach wasn’t kidding.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • These innocuous-seeming actions can kindle dry vegetation, potentially spawning a wildfire.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Back to the Future was a massive success, spawning two sequels, while Family Ties ended in 1989.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The two-day trial of ten people accused of sexist cyberbullying against France’s First Lady Brigitte Macron by propagating fake and malicious claims about her sexuality and gender began in Paris on Monday.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The idea of waves propagating through a barrier has been around for a long time, since before the existence of quantum mechanics.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Oct. 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 Criterion Channel's Body Horror collection features macabre stories involving a woman and her tentacled creature lover (Possession), a woman self-reproducing odd children through rage (The Brood), and more disturbing visuals that will keep you up all night.
    EW Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • However, the ad selects and splices certain lines from the five-minute address rather than playing the remarks in the order they were delivered or reproducing the speech in its entirety.
    Michael Collins, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • 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
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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