Example Sentences

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For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

Boone has littered nearly all his injury updates with declarations that he is “optimistic” or “encouraged” about players’ progress.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2019

We’ll see this weekend if mainstream interest is in any way correlated to online/film geek anticipation, but Fox has littered its marketing campaign with the kind of attention-getting, and media-friendly gimmicks.

From Forbes • Oct. 1, 2014

One reason why turned in quite such an assured conference performance on Tuesday was because he shrewdly eschewed a buzzword that has littered his other speeches of late, namely pre-distribution.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2012

I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson