litter

Example Sentences

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The table was littered with containers of beads and lengths of thread.

From Literature

I may have taken a bigger interest in picking up litter after that.

From MarketWatch

With its cream-coloured, old stone buildings and blankets of bright yellow daffodils, the village appears to be an unlikely location for fly-tipping, even if the litter in question retails at more than £10 a bottle.

From BBC

The researchers found the highest concentrations in the top layer of leaf litter, where decomposition has just begun.

From Science Daily

But now we found ourselves bottle-feeding Hayden, as we named him, four times a day and later celebrating his successful use of the litter box like the proudest of parents.

From The Wall Street Journal