Example Sentences

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A blue balloon floating outside a door, drifting above where a party hat and empty juice bottles had littered the ground.

From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2019

But on our visit to Nanshan, a heatwave had littered the ground with dead fledglings.

From Time • May 27, 2016

There were those who defended Johnson, in part because he had littered Yasusada’s Japanese biography with easily fact-checked clues that suggested it was all made up.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 9, 2015

The burnt out cars that had littered the scene the day before had been removed and replaced by half a dozen military jeeps.

From Reuters • Dec. 27, 2011

The storm had littered the shore and he walked the tideline looking for anything of use.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy