Example Sentences

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Chain letters have cluttered our letter receptacles—first analog, more recently digital—since time immemorial, and now they’ve wormed their way into Stories, the self-exploding messages at the top of your Instagram app.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2018

Mr. Berlusconi’s legal woes have been widely covered in the news and have cluttered Italy’s political life in recent months, as several trials overlapped.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2013

As the Bulls' offseason looms, the psychological hurdle has yet to be cleared and now other doubts about his mentality have cluttered Rose's once-impeccable reputation.

From Chicago Tribune • May 12, 2013

Activists complain that locals only see a small share of benefits from projects that have cluttered the isthmus with hulking turbines.

From Scientific American • May 14, 2012

Let the trivia�like foreign pilgrimages, town meetings and water-project vetoes�that have cluttered and complicated his world so far be conveniently forgotten now and then as he goes after a genuine Middle East peace.

From Time Magazine Archive