How to Use litter in a Sentence

litter

1 of 2 noun

• We decided to pick up the litter in the park.
• Her desk was covered with a litter of legal documents.
• In the litter of sycamore and oak leaves and the carpet of newborn grass, something caught my eye.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
• Yet, high-tech has come even to the task of removing litter.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024
• And oh my God, Dixie Highway is a hot mess with the litter.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
• Muskrats can have up to three litters each year, with between six and eight kits each.
  — Patrick Camp The Cullman Times, al, 7 July 2023
• The high sides kept most of the litter in, though there still was a bit of litter tracking from our cat tester.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
• That’s when the fire creeps across on the bottom of the forest floor, cleaning up some old leaf litter.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Along with litter washing ashore, the seabirds often pick up plastics from the ocean.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
• My goal with each litter is to keep breeding a better dog.
  — Kyle Wintersteen, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
• We were blown away by its suction, which was able to pick up dirt, dust, crumbs, cat litter, and hair in just one pass.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
• The newest cubs are the third Amur leopard litter born at the San Diego Zoo, according to the news release.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
• The genus is known to feed on deadwood, dead leaves, leaf litter or lichens, according to Hoare.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• The cats are then released back to the streets to live out their lives, but without leaving litters behind.
  — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• In a recording of their video call, seen by CNN, rubble litters the land where the cemetery once stood.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
• According to Roache, three dogs were rescued and a litter of puppies was killed in the blaze.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
• Many species overwinter in the crevices of tree bark or beneath leaf litter.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
• Then head out to collect litter at a park or neighborhood of choice.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
• The average litter size is four to five pups, which subsist on their mother’s milk for the first five to nine weeks of their lives.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• As a volunteer with a few laps around the track under his belt, Boone is no stranger to an odd find in the litter left behind.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2023
• Each mother never left her litter, not even to feed, and the hatchlings wriggled around on her back and nuzzled up to the end of her body.
  — Sofia Quaglia, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
• To preserve moisture, add 1-2 inches of mulch such as pine straw, bark mulch, or leaf litter.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
• That second litter was then carried down to a parking lot.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
• The Milwaukee River, which cut through the heart of downtown, was a dumping grounds for litter, runoff — even sewage.
  — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• Avoid busy and wooded areas that contain high grass and leaf litter.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
• Don’t clean up leaf litter, seed heads, or hollow stems too quickly!
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
• Today, they are known to be part of a litter of at least 95 moons orbiting the giant planet.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• The sun dries out the vegetation; trees shed leaves to preserve water; the litter becomes fuel for the next fire.
  — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Donations: Dry and wet pet food, pop-up kennels, treats and litter.
  — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• Firefighters found the tube – with Seamus inside, staring back at them among the dirt and litter.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2023

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litter

2 of 2 verb

• He had to pay a fine for littering.
• Paper and popcorn littered the streets after the parade.
• It is illegal to litter.
• The streets of the city of Sderot were littered with bodies.
  — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
• Roads were littered with limbs and branches, and some were caked in mud.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
• The sound of water wafts up from below and the night sky above is littered with stars.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
• Most fields along the lower Dnieper are littered with mines.
  — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Trees had been snapped in half and branches littered the ground.
  — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
• With steep hills on all sides littered with thick brush and blowdown, this bear would be a chore to get to.
  — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
• The history of the Cold War is littered with near misses.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• Although the trail has been open for less than two weeks, the path is already littered with refuse.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• Large pieces of the crane littered the street below after falling down the side of the building.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The staff wasn’t going to be littered with guys that had a real idea of who to go talk to and when to go talk to and how to talk to them.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 26 July 2023
• Shell cases littered the floors of many of the modest houses.
  — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
• Small, pointy rocks littered the sand where there were none before.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
• Videos from the beach show the pangas and an array of life jackets littering the sand of Black's Beach.
  — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
• Much of the home's roof appeared to have been blown or burnt off, with debris littering the yard.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2023
• Holes marred the front door, while others littered the white stucco around the front windows.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
• Some folks take their trees down right away, and the streets of many neighborhoods are littered with Christmas trees on the first few days of the new year.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2023
• For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Debris littered the site, and a row of mail delivery trucks stood with their sides and roofs blown out.
  — Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• The front door was broken and a window was shattered, with shards of glass littering the ground.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
• The tracks were no longer littered with boxes; new fencing and barbed wire had been put up beside them.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• Clothes are piled on a bed and chair; the floor is littered with debris, computer equipment and trash.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
• The road to more reasonable prices for new and used cars remains littered with potholes.
  — Christopher Hickey, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
• The cost of Airbnb rentals has increased, and social media is littered with user complaints about the prices.
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 4 May 2023
• Oak Ridge sprang to life from ground littered with the detritus of uprooted lives.
  — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• With both of his starts this spring coming on the road, the right-hander has faced two lineups littered with regulars.
  — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2023
• Not the smell of putrefaction, though the novel is littered with rotting corpses.
  — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• The atmosphere is 100 times less dense than Earth’s, the ground often obscured by dust, and the terrain littered with boulders, craters, and slopes.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024