clutter
verb (used with object)
to fill or litter with things in a disorderly manner.
were cluttering
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past progressiveof clutter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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There was also criticism that groups of parked e-scooters were cluttering sidewalks making passage dangerous.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
There was also criticism that groups of parked e-scooters were cluttering pavements.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2023
The erasure of modernity includes roads without cars, tracks without trains and skies without planes, which were cluttering airspace by the time of Hopper’s death in 1967 at age 84.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 26, 2023
All I could focus on were the disposable coffee cups, iPod earbud cords, and loud Urban Outfitters window displays that were cluttering his view.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2014
Great tangles of their cut boughs were cluttering the ground, as though a band of gigantic woodcutters had just passed by.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
