How To Use Clutter In A Sentence

The restaurant, with its acre of tables, glassed and naperied; the ranges of telephone booths, all going it together; the cellars, a vast subterrene, with dusky avenues of lockers, each cluttered with beverages of individual predilection -- though I suppose that, after all, they were a good deal alike .... On the Stairs
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Both the reception and the restaurant areas had a very open, uncluttered, look about them.
Having a more positive approach to making choices builds your confidence - and dejunks your clutter.
Otherwise the room is uncluttered, much like her paintings. Times, Sunday Times

Stretched out below was a chain of freighters tied up alongside the commercial docks, cranes and gantries cluttering the foreshore. CORMORANT
Avoid installing directly under trees where leaves will clutter the surface of the pond.
As a swarm of new dot-com brands try to buy their way to brand recognition, clutter makes it difficult to break out, and it's easy to fritter away advertising dollars.
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This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
It is one of a torrent of jargon words, phrases, clichés and bureaucratic gobbledygook that have grown to clutter our language.
The key to productive disagreements is clearing the clutter from your communicationand not just when youre fighting. Enough Already
A lot of information is needlessly cluttering your mind.
Around the walls dinted filing cabinets were cluttered haphazardly.
Clutter multiplied, begetting yet more clutter with no apparent involvement on his part. AMAGANSETT
The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Exploring language (6th edn)
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The space ship is cluttered with aging technology and tattered furniture - this is not the uniformly pristine and transfigured world of the typical sci-fi flick.
Nor does it make for efficiency as the courts would be cluttered with prosecutions of blameless individuals who would ultimately be dealt with by means of an absolute discharge.
Despite the deluge of World Cup promotions and advertising campaigns, Walkers' heavy spending and football tie-ins appear to have cut through the advertising clutter.
Besides revealing our solar system to be far more cluttered than astronomers had suspected, these piffling objects are providing new clues about what conditions were like during the system's infancy.
The liver, which is the relay station for energy circulation in the body, has immediate access to this omental fat, unlike the cellulose cluttering up the back of our thighs. You: On a Diet
The Times reported last month that sandwich boards and advertising placards are to be banned to reduce street clutter. Times, Sunday Times
Unraveled scrolls of ancient calligraphic writing cluttered the open floor, and watercolor tapestries of jungle temples hung on the otherwise barren wall.
Ms. Talyarkhan's creations are noted for their classic, uncluttered silhouettes that flatter the wearer.
This technique is quite different from the prey detection style usually employed by vesper bats: a technique suited for short-range prey that are detected in cluttered habitats. Archive 2006-06-01
By comparison, the cluttered townscape of the older centres, with its narrow streets and timber-and-thatch housing, seemed outdated and even barbarous.
Some people say they're unsightly, and that they clutter up the place. Times, Sunday Times
Your bedroom is too messy An untidy bedroom can impact on sleep because a cluttered room means a cluttered mind. Times, Sunday Times
Like the Chief’s mother, they see no point in cluttering their “beautiful minds” with images of “body bags and death”. Think Progress » Tom DeLay: Response to Katrina a “Phenomenal Accomplishment”
‘What a very boring man, obsessed with the first world war,’ he says, all self-mockery, behind his cluttered desk in Private Eye's defiantly unmodernised Soho townhouse.
It is amusing to see that pedestrians would rather make a long detour to avoid the clutter than straighten up the mess.
Dupont was searching for something hidden in the clutter on his desk and looked up from his nest.
If you don't, the rear speakers will clutter up the room to little purpose. Times, Sunday Times
The portraits are simple, uncluttered compositions.
In Capote's telling, Smith and Hickock were the other, dark side of Herb Clutter's America.
The villa galleria was baroquely ostentatious and many of the artworks just clutter-glitter.
I thought we were doing quite well when we managed to reduce the whole house clutter to 2 bedrooms 'worth (or was it' confine 'rather than' reduce '?) … … Either way, I appreciate you more each time I read your blog, and extend thanks that you are so willing to share your life insights and experience. The Cottage Smallholder
Though the books are rather cluttered with adverbs and adjectives -- like the early work of many writers -- they read easily. Ford Madox Ford
In contrast to the cluttered runner up pages, the winning designs are presented alone.
The resulting motion, which would resemble that of a real snake, would help the snakebot move safely in cluttered spaces. Boing Boing: January 12, 2003 - January 18, 2003 Archives
There were scorpions inside jars, and papers were cluttered underneath them; drawings of spiders, centipedes, and large ants.
Three years ago we helped an old lady with a cluttered house that looked like an antiques shop. Times, Sunday Times
While clever enough in theory, the chairs in reality clutter the stage and restrict the cast's sorely needed freedom to move.
The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges.
All he could do was stand in the rubble of his precious memories, and forlornly point out random spots now cluttered with cranes and building supplies.
People are always surprised when they realize that the real challenge in decluttering and getting organized has little to doat least initiallywith their stuff. Enough Already
Jean Piaget is barely visible amid piles of clutter.
Set within a trendy facility, the interior boasts modern furnishings and minimalist, stylish furniture - absolutely no clutter.
It's the snarling turbines, the hiss of steam and clutter of coal trucks and tram tracks that bring out the inner geek in me. Times, Sunday Times
In contrast to the uncluttered iciness of many newer places, it is cosy, relaxing and, well, romantic, with oil lamps on each table.
Buddie, dear," he said, "you're gettin 'cluttered up with a lot of bum ideas. The Second Chance
It does not, however, have to be a dizzying jumble of clutter.
But there is something easeful and secure about this uncluttered room with its warm umber banquettes.
Far below, beneath shreds of glistening cloud, York is laid out like a map: the Ouse glinting in the sun, the Minster rearing above the clutter of buildings around its feet.
Gone were the piles of undifferentiated clutter, the narrow passageways, and the mysterious back room.
The kids always clutter the hall with school bags and coats and stuff.
This goes on for two days, after which they clutter off in a haze of petrol and alcohol fumes, leaving you feeling hungover but jolly happy. Times, Sunday Times
But have they spotted the pent-up demand for car clutter? Times, Sunday Times
Clean uncluttered shapes work particularly well in this context, where anything fussy would counteract the effect of calming and grounding an otherwise busy scene. Times, Sunday Times
Her bedroom was full of clothes and other clutter, something which is very unlike my gran.
But have they spotted the pent-up demand for car clutter? Times, Sunday Times
It is cluttered, but in a well-arranged, beautifully kept way. Times, Sunday Times
There were more singers and musicians and artist folk, and bevies of young girls with their inevitable followings of young men, while mammas and aunts and chaperons seemed to clutter all the ways of the Big House and to fill CHAPTER XIX
But remember, all those ropes and winches and seafaring clutter have an important function, and the crew will certainly need to be able to get to them (sometimes in a hurry).
Once you reduce this clutter, your old files will be more visible again. Times, Sunday Times
Order a thimble of strong, raki-spiked elliniki coffee and hobnob with black-shirted shepherds listening to Cretan music on Radio Kriti FM at the kafeneion in the central square, then pay a call at the corner house, cluttered with memorabilia, where sweet-voiced Nikos Xylouris grew up. Insiders' guide to Greece
Room for a bit of clutter. Times, Sunday Times
He set out to make it quicker, less cluttered, less cosy. Times, Sunday Times
Collectively known as autophagy (literally, "self-eating"), these processes keep cells clean and uncluttered and provide them with replacement parts that will function better. Newswise: Latest News
All the stories are simply constructed, no superfluous words, no extra images to clutter the feeling.
Jean Piaget is barely visible amid piles of clutter.
They were swept into a grand room full of rich clutter and fine carpets. Times, Sunday Times
They seek to reduce what they see as needless clutter and eye candy, and to fashion beautifully spare pages, focusing on the most pleasing presentation of text.
These bats use low wing loadings and low aspect ratios to practice slow, manoeuvrable flight as they glean for mostly terrestrial prey in cluttered habitats. Archive 2006-06-01
The answer is to clear our heads of clutter. Exploring language (6th edn)
Remove some of the furniture if you think it's going to clutter up space.
Some of them lead to comfortable and cluttered rooms occupied by famous academics and writers. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Do you have too much clutter in your home? Times, Sunday Times
All of a sudden, congested and cluttered areas free up and the game becomes far more open. Times, Sunday Times
The premise remains interesting, but the plot is cluttered with schemes and counter-schemes that seem unrealistic at best and pointless at worst.
They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
There was no pointless clutter of brandy snap baskets, tuiles, mint leaves or physalis either.
When you live in an unincorporated "burb," you don't have to worry about cluttered junk around the yard or my tin building, which is full of old computers; and outside of it, I have gutted Macintoshes and various other digital peripherials. The Parable Of The Sparrow And The Mustard Seed.
Mr. Ulrich, known as a stickler for detail, relied on its heritage of upscale merchandising and uncluttered aisles to make Target stand out. Target Promotes Steinhafel to CEO Post
The clutter continues inside, where the Great Hall, dominated by a large mural of King, also houses a kiosk selling de-accessioned books, a video phone booth, a temporary stage, a tub for recycling cellphones, tables for displaying books, movable art pods that serve as exhibition space, and special shelves for books pertinent (at the moment) to National Bike Month. Mies's modernist D.C. library building is getting a complementary companion
Firefighters' rescue efforts were hampered by the collapse of the roof and widespread clutter inside the building. Times, Sunday Times
Hollis ' eyes grazed over the clutter on the desk, looking for a suicide note. AMAGANSETT
This had been too halcyon a day to clutter up the memory of it with some backwoods bully's melodramatic bellowings. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Gill revels in the chaos of roadworks, the clutter of abandoned lots and the forgotten spaces between buildings.
But there are also details intended to give a simpler and cleaner look: the sills seem part of the body instead of a separate undercarriage, the boot lid is tidier and there is less clutter on the bumpers.
Sorry about the clutter in the kitchen.
Filling our houses with things that we don't need clutters our homes and is putting a severe strain on natural resources.
By 1850, papermaking had ceased, Clutterbuck re-converting the mill for cloth manufacture.
It's the snarling turbines, the hiss of steam and clutter of coal trucks and tram tracks that bring out the inner geek in me. Times, Sunday Times
Whatever happened to the council's aim to free us of street clutter?
I'd rather not clutter up the car with a portable one. Times, Sunday Times
The cabin is uncluttered with a small cluster of instrument dials to control key elements. The Sun
These people are about to get serious help to clear out their clutter. The Sun
She pointed, as she spoke, to the cluttered yard before them, to the unwashed wagons and rusty tools that had not been put away, to the shed-door half off its hinges, and the unpiled wood tossed carelessly inside the shed. The Old Gray Homestead
Our residence in Baker Street had the reputation of being cluttered and in disarray, so perhaps he thought this was its normal appearance.
And anyway, these protesters shouldn't be allowed to clutter up the pavements.
There is no need to clutter the entire home with a sewing project, if you neaten and clean as you sew. Home Living
Her pay load was higher than necessary for the job, since passengers weigh little for the cubage they clutter-but that would make her lively, which might be critically important. The Past Through Tomorrow
Perhaps the cluttered and increasingly confusing maze of the hang is meant to evoke the complexities of Wonderland. Times, Sunday Times
Revelations may come in the night, when the mind has shed its normal clutter of reasons and viewpoints.
But darn it, I don't have weeks of free time to declutter and dejunk my house. Wired Campus
The clutter of towns and the populated lowland fell behind, and a feeling of space overtook them. LOST SUMMER
An application that appears cluttered or illogical is harder to understand and use. Aesthetic Integrity - Anil Dash
Be ruthless with clutter, write in the active voice, place each idea into a sentence of its own, and lastly, get your punctuation right.
The Times reported last month that sandwich boards and advertising placards are to be banned to reduce street clutter. Times, Sunday Times
This movie would be more enjoyable if a cutter edited out all the extraneous clutter.
free a path across the cluttered floor
During that first interview we sat in a small room cluttered with books, toys and old furniture. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, I feel better when I get my schedule and todo items recorded and not cluttering my brain, I wonder what other cruft is knocking around up there. Minor Observations
Some of these vendors can even deliver bills via e-mail, avoiding paper clutter and saving some trees.
These people are about to get serious help to clear out their clutter. The Sun
The first task is to clear away the clutter. Times, Sunday Times
We offer less clutter, more clarity; less stop and stare and more look and go. Times, Sunday Times
Ancient Egyptians knew the sublimity of exterior space (think of the pyramids under moonlight), but interior space for them was darkness and clutter.
Declutter, throwing out anything you can do without. Times, Sunday Times
The side decks are uncluttered except for the necessary genoa track and the mast shrouds are well inboard for easy passage and improved sheeting angles.
Clutter in the kitchen along the worktops should also be avoided, especially if this area is visible from the sitting area.
The cat managed to find a spot to sleep amidst all the clutter of my study.
I consider that even in the subtopian clutter of modern towns and cities, a stark beauty can sometimes be found.
Analysis of simulated sea clutter indicates that sea clutter are chaotic, dissipative and physically realizable system.
The word clutter is often associated with chaos, disorganization, and mess. SHED Your Stuff, Change Your Life
From somewhere in the cluttered hut she produced a bag from which she fetched a small vial. SHADOW OF A DARK QUEEN: BOOK ONE OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
We also needed to remove the clutter from her monthly calendar. Christianity Today
The foreground clutter of grocery carts and trolleys in this painting is as intricately painted as everything else.
Inside it was like a Victorian jumble sale with kitsch ornaments everywhere, and the cluttered rooms lit only by the orange glow of 40-watt bulbs in frilly lampshades.
The house is cosy, just the right side of cluttered. Times, Sunday Times
That is, truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
In 2010, she launched a successful business advising clients how to declutter their homes. Times, Sunday Times
They feel entitled to de-clutter their lives from those mouldy old ancestral obligations.
The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney. The Silicon Mage
Do you remember when everyone got a bit tired of electronic clutter and went unplugged and acoustic?
This is a lovely book to browse through - full of inviting, colourful pictures and uncluttered text.
The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
Together the pair will sift through drawers, cupboards and storage places in a bid to turn your old junk, clutter and rubbish in hard cash for something special.
We have an uncluttered retail environment to sell through, and that's a big enabler.
Though the evening was billed as a solo acoustic gig, the stage set-up looked more cluttered than a Radiohead show: six guitars, banjos, drum machines, a piano, Fender Rhodes, celeste and squeeze box.
Downhill skiing requires ski lifts that frighten the chamois and clutter the mountains with pylons and cables.
Metallic clutter in the ground will slow down a detection mission because all metallic objects must be investigated.
However, we have not conquered the messy room and clutter around the house despite frequent "declutter" and organizing sessions. NYT > Home Page
Ordinary kids, the type most of us have cluttering up our living rooms, are just not genetically programmed to be presentable.
Her book is a rallying cry for all those who like their politics simple and uncluttered by complexity and ambiguity. Times, Sunday Times
With allusions to the heavenly clutter of planets and stars, the artist gives his canvases a feeling of boundlessness.
The great battle of modern domestic life is keeping the clutter within manageable proportions. Times, Sunday Times
The final two books should find a captive audience in anyone whose idea of design hell involves magnolia walls and clutter-free surfaces, and in those who crave a return to decorative decadence.
Therefore, as he sat behind his cluttered desk amidst the disaster area that was the kindest way to describe his office, Aldo Corsi regarded the man who now stood before him wearing a Starfleet uniform with an expression of unmitigated contempt. Home Fires
He could see him setting type in the little printery, or scribbling endless hasty, nervous lines on the much-cluttered desk. The Mexican
As we paint our individual pictures of life the scene can become cluttered, especially for disorganized people like myself who tend to lose track of things in their chaotic surroundings.
It seems likely that our memories are getting worse, as the clutter of data and information that we try to deal with every day increases.
They were swept into a grand room full of rich clutter and fine carpets. Times, Sunday Times
Thanks to a storage room that gave a home to A LOT of our stuff, the kitchen feels very non-cluttery and leaves room for decorative play yes, my little clover survived the move as well! Archive 2008-08-01
For as long as there has been a publishing industry, there have been used books, that supposedly quaint world of polymaths and antiquarians poking about musty, cluttered stores for titles few readers would know.
Among the clutter of computer screens, racks of original prints and an underwater camera casing are enlarged copies of the rare archive photographs taken of the sinking boats.
We're not actually sure why they bothered, though: most branches of Tescos have their doorways cluttered by hordes of incoherent young people in ugly clothes getting in people's way.
Some of these vendors can even deliver bills via e-mail, avoiding paper clutter and saving some trees.
Research also finds that we are more effective at solving difficult problems when our minds are less cluttered, which is more likely to occur if we get our heads out of work -- for example, by taking a vacation. Judi Casey: Vacations -- Who Needs Them?
Try not to clutter your head with trivia.
It's clean, uncluttered, elegant and not too difficult for a layman either.
The good news is that it is possible, with some training, for politicians to master the communications skills with which they can cut through the clutter.
There are two large main bars with nooks and crannies leading off, all cluttered with ancient bric-a-brac. Around Berlin in 80 beers
And, as you'd expect, all things Elvis clutter the shelves, from figurines to drinking glasses to wallets to tins to plates to clocks to jukeboxes to lamps to cookie jars.
The paint was peeling, many of the rooms were cluttered with junk and the whole place looked sorry for itself.
It is amusing to see that pedestrians would rather make a long detour to avoid the clutter than straighten up the mess.
Every shelf is cluttered with ornaments.
The One-Minute Organizer offers a simple plan to help you unclutter and organize your life... one minute at a time.
They also conceal electrical wiring, filter tubes, and any other clutter behind the tank.
She said too much clutter could hinder the way the brain processes information. Times, Sunday Times
Some people live in clutter, thrive on noise, and allow themselves to be drained by demanding friends and acquaintances.
He notes he has adapted to no-huddles, mondo replays and screen clutter.
It was better than fabric painting because it helped retain the flow of the garment, giving a simple uncluttered holistic look.
A reduced Doppler shift also enhances the effectiveness of chaff and decoys, which should allow the aircraft to break lock and hide in ground clutter.
The small spot is a festive clutter of petite piñatas, garlands of chili pepper lights and paper cutouts, big windows decorated with a spinning police light, cacti and a coffin.
Star schema and snowflake schema are adopted in radar clutter data warehouse.
We shouldn't be surprised, as the trend has been moving towards simple, uncluttered living, which is the essence of oriental style.
People keep so much clutter on their desks and that's the total opposite of that clear holiday feeling. Times, Sunday Times
Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera.
As I sat there, a dormouse scuttled right out from under my boots: I'd disturbed its lunch, and there was a clutter of precision-punctured hazelnut shells among the leaf litter.
They would grace our otherwise cluttered shelves.
Now that we are ready to start dejunking and unclutter our lives, let's look at a few dejunking tips.
Combining contemporary and retro styles with a simple colour palette, it has an uncluttered, urban look. Times, Sunday Times
I'm a clean freak when it comes to my desktop. But am quite surprised to see that it's so cluttered today.
This is reflected in the exhibit itself, which is a bit cluttered, but then, so is urban design.
Simple and uncluttered, yet colourful and inventive - and that's just the packaging!
It's the snarling turbines, the hiss of steam and clutter of coal trucks and tram tracks that bring out the inner geek in me. Times, Sunday Times
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Celebration and friendship washed over the brassy clutter of drawings, video projections, raw wood structures, handmade coins and other stuff.
Long treated as a back, it was full of coal stores and junk, and cluttered with a sprawl of buildings added piecemeal over the years.
On the subject of alleviating clutter after installing Windows XP, the desktop is devoid of icons except the Recycle Bin.
It's possible something has been lost in the translation; the story feels bitty and cluttered by digressions, while the whimsical air is irritating rather than amusing.
The moving display system, the department hopes, will stand out amid the clutter of promotionals that swamp the cityscape.
This is the only way one can reasonably explain the numerous grammatical and spelling errors, logical non sequiturs, inaccuracies, misquotes, opaque prose, and prolific use of jargon that clutter almost every page.
Three years ago we helped an old lady with a cluttered house that looked like an antiques shop. Times, Sunday Times
Each team was given unambiguous achievement responsibility, commensurate authority, and uncluttered accountability.
And a little less clutter in the life of the more organised younger brother. Times, Sunday Times
Are we turning away locals and visitors because of expensive and inadequate car parking, and an untidy cluttered High Street?

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