[
UK
/lˈɪtɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫɪtɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪtɝ/ ]
VERB
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strew
Cigar butts littered the ground - give birth to a litter of animals
- make a place messy by strewing garbage around
NOUN
- rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places)
- conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers
- material used to provide a bed for animals
- the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal
How To Use litter In A Sentence
- In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight. The Frozen Pirate
- The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
- The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
- In September, return visitors to an Edinburgh guesthouse said it was time to ‘rethink the three-star rating’, complaining that the linens were ‘soiled’ and the carpet was littered with ‘crumbs and dustballs’.
- Just as people shouldn't drop litter, they shouldn't deface the city with graffiti, and ways need to be found of persuading them to stop doing it.
- Still there was no snow, but there was frost glittering on the ground.
- Forget Mr Motivator, this bumbag revival can be revolutionary to the fashion glitterati. TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends
- The litter on the boreen in Tullyvarraga, black bags of household rubbish thrown in over the wall, is a shame, a black spot in the quest for Tidy Towns glory.
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- The whole state has kind of a cowboy-Saudi glitter to it when the oil is expensive, and kind of a sepia-Joad craquelure to it when the oil is cheap. Kenneth Hite's Journal