Example Sentences

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The screen was intended to deter tourists who were littering, parking poorly, and behaving antisocially to take photos for social media.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

After a Sir David Attenborough documentary highlighted how take-away containers were littering the seas, a public outcry led to legislation banning single-use plastic straws.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2021

The country was on the path to industrialization, but it had a public nuisance problem—widespread squatter colonies and slums and 25,000-plus itinerant hawkers who were littering the streets.

From National Geographic • Jan. 29, 2021

In the midst of the scooter explosion, Bostian noticed that people were littering the hotel driveway with scooters, blocking guests from driving in and out.

From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2019

Fear grew stronger and stronger in my heart as I saw that all the chimneys of the houses were littering the streets through which we passed.

From San Francisco During the Eventful Days of April 1906 by Stetson, James B. (James Burgess)