littered

Example Sentences

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For pretty much everyone I know, their dog’s last years are littered with health problems that are both heartbreaking to witness and expensive to manage.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

“They don’t have to live in the mess they’ve created,” Pratt says as he walks down an L.A. street littered with homeless tents.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

When the last result was eventually declared in Inverness in the wee small hours, in a counting centre littered with empty pizza boxes, there was not even a crumb of comfort for the party.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

As he did before the raid, Lee spends much of his day behind a plexiglass cashier’s window littered with brightly colored Post-it Notes, stacks of car fresheners to one side.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

I remembered the huge pile of used tissues that littered the coffee table, and how Butternut stayed near me the whole day, like he knew I was sick and needed a friend.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks