litter
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On the second evening, the winners were dressed as characters from “Desperate Living,” complete with four men in leather attire carrying their friend, who was dressed like a queen on a litter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Numerous prototype limbs litter the surfaces in Kimathi's lab.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Maple, who has just had a litter of kittens, is successfully trapped at Angel City Lumber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He said the team have already collected "five big bucket loads" of litter which he said "covered half the distance" of the town's promenade.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
At one time there’d been a whole litter of cats in there, but only one remained.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
It is the only other highly ranked "monotocous" species, meaning it typically produces a single offspring per pregnancy rather than litters.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026
They sleep together, clean each other and, despite being from different litters, generally behave like siblings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
He was best known for his love of the husky dogs used to pull sledges around the island, and he raised two litters of dogs.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
The bill originally also included proposals to set up a Scotland-wide database for registering all dogs bred in unlicensed litters.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs — the litters were small and the young survived only a few days.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Canada are not the only country to do this - PWR is littered with top internationals from across the globe.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
But television history is littered with fine ideas that don’t pan out in practice.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2026
On listing day, X was littered with gripes from those who received far fewer than they requested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
In a landscape littered with teenage dysfunction, Netflix’s ‘Don’t Say Good Luck’ is a moving argument for aspirational television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The game trail we were following was littered with broken limbs and leaves.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
There are large fragments of salt-eaten machinery littering the shore, relics of the island’s martial heyday.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
In the 2023-24 season, widespread fan action including littering pitches with tennis balls and chocolate coins resulted in the scrapping of an investment deal, despite the proposal winning majority support of clubs.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I think the process is for profit, not for justice - it won't actually solve the issue of littering, and now the justice system is being overburdened," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The latter which was backed up by AI pictures posted to his account with drones and planes and military gear littering the rooftop.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Blake glanced into his old room and saw my stuffed animals littering the bed.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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