How To Use Littered In A Sentence

The jar tipped over, and hundreds of wooden clacks could be heard as the pencils littered the ground.
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’.
The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
Dirty clothes littered the floor of her bedroom.
The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled.

An adjoining room is littered with mementos of more recent island history: a rack of antlers, a rusty plow, and an old dentist's chair.
The area is still littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance.
It ended with bodies of soldiers littered in front of us, adorned with vivid flowers. Times, Sunday Times
History is littered with despots and psychopaths, murderous dullards, evil geniuses, deadly incompetents, calamitous brutes of all descriptions.
It has an untamed feel, having been largely unmanaged for many decades and it's littered with old wood and falling trees, a perfect habitat for these invisible workers.
He took a white-filtered cigarette from a packet which lay on a glass-littered table beside the sun lounger.
To use a sports metaphor for a moment, the history of sports is littered with teams that had lots of individual stars on them, but never made it to the championship game.
For more than a mile the beach was littered with wrecked ships, including debris from the steamer Curaca which was thrown across the full width of the narrows.
Behind the wall's remains she could see the streets, littered with the burnt-out husks of cars and buses, many of which lay on their sides on the broken bitumen.
Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men.
The ring glittered on its damson pouffe like some intra-uterine device.
History is littered with men and women spurred into achievement by a father's disregard.
The reason I haven't been arrested is not because I'm white and haven't committed any of these crimes -- let's face it, I've jaywalked, littered, and loitered, which makes me a triple threat -- it's because I'm not poor. Jan Herman: Living in a Police State Is Okay
Well from a website visitor's perspective, is it better to land on a parked domain littered with spammy ads?
The home, whose lights were not working, was littered with dog feces, the toilets were filled with human excrement and the children were "unbathed" and had no food, according to the warrants. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
The rest of the room was decorated rodeo style with red booths, horseshoes dangling from the walls, and cowboy hats littered on several of the tabletops.
It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it.
The lake has been found littered with polythene bags and plastic bottles.
Sport is littered with examples of top players failing to become effective managers. Times, Sunday Times
They, too, were followed by waves of aftershocks which hampered rescue work in an area littered with landmines laid during years of war.
The book is littered with one-liners and anecdotes that will be familiar to activists on the Left.
She flittered into the crowd, leaving me and the seal to stare at each other. Brush of Darkness
I thought that given a better part he could have fulfilled the promise he showed but not as the stereotyped gambler with a heart, which has so littered the American musical scene since Gaylord Ravenal applied for a job on a showboat.
The streets are littered with garbage and lined with open sewers.
The dusty barren ground was littered with piles of unburied corpses.
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
The East River, in fact a tidal strait, is littered with smaller islands like Roosevelt, Randall's, Rikers, and Ward.
Her shoulder-length jet-black hair glittered in the sunlight as did her blue-gray eyes.
Yet chemical analysis has clearly proved that the manurial value of straw is perfectly insignificant, and that, as a constituent of stable manure, it is chiefly useful as an absorbent of the liquid egesta of the animals littered upon it. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
History is littered with examples of ill-conceived attempts to keep the peace at any price. Times, Sunday Times
Still, the Web is littered with documentation about the product.
The week was littered with evidence that conditions remain tough. Times, Sunday Times
Leaves and other debris covered it, and the chitinous carcasses of dead bugs were littered around. Rot & Ruin
The little waves of the river glittered and shone and rolled lazily down upon the channel, or curled up in rippling eddies towards the shore. The Hills of the Shatemuc
There was a smell of burnt rubber and shards of glass littered the pub entrance.
At others, downed trees littered parent pickup areas and limbs were strewn across student bike racks.
The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
the floor around the tree was littered with gifts already unwrapped
In Wisconsin, the mayor of La Crosse declared a state of emergency Sunday after a powerful storm tore roofs from homes and littered streets and lawns with downed trees and debris. Tornadoes batter central U.S.
The sea glittered in the sun.
The newspaper has a reputation for being littered with spelling mistakes.
But the figures were littered with inaccuracies.
Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
Caryatids hold up the entrance to a barn and the former farmyard is littered with modern sculpture.
Daffodils, wild hyacinths and tulips, snowdrops, bluebells, daisies and buttercups littered the earth.
Croft thought her eyes glittered with excitement, but, in the darkness of the carriage, he could not be sure.
I have never forgotten -- never -- never _forgotten_!" faltered Madeleine, in a voice that had a sound of tears, answering to those that glittered in her eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel
Her eyes glittered with a new emotion, one he could identify all to easily.
The roads were littered with debris - bricks, bottles, charred gas canisters, all presumably used as missiles at some point by the hundreds of youths intent on violence.
Diamonds and precious gems littered the ground like pebbles.
The article was littered with spelling mistakes .
He littered the stable with fresh straw.
Puddles of frozen slush glittered dully in the reflected yellow light from the phony gas lamps that illuminated the brick-paved plaza. A RODENT OF DOUBT
For projects with no hope of making the deadline, workers toiled instead to put up screening walls, or to neaten the piles of I-beams and rebar that normally littered the sites. China's Way Forward
The sidewalks are littered with trash, the elm trees are gone.
Because the runway was littered with wreckage, the patient's plane was forced to land in a field.
The Firth of Tay glittered like crumpled silver foil, and the city shone with an inner light.
Stars were littered carelessly throughout, some bright, large and bold while others merely dimpled the blue with tiny dots of light.
Her mother paused and several expressions Helene couldn't identify flittered quickly across her face.
Many roads were littered with debris including fallen traffic lights and overturned cars blocked several routes.
The result was something of a mess: wildly funny in parts, but littered with in-jokes about the Irish arts world and particularly the Cork poetry scene.
When, however, the little insignificant figure we have described approached so nigh as to receive some interruption from the warders, he dashed his dusky green turban from his head, showed that his beard and eyebrows were shaved like those of a professed buffoon, and that the expression of his fantastic and writhen features, as well as of his little black eyes, which glittered like jet, was that of a crazed imagination. The Talisman
Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
The sky outside the Sanctuary was a rich, deep blue; several pinpoints of stars glittered softly.
The stadium was littered with the detritus of yesterday's rock concert.
The floor was littered with cigarette ends.
A prolonged har-r-r-rouche from Kaluna brought out a man with a female horde behind him, all shuffling into clothes as we approached, and we stiffly dismounted from the wet saddles in which we had sat for ten hours, and stiffly hobbled up into the littered verandah, the water dripping from our clothes, and squeezing out of our boots at every step. The Hawaiian Archipelago
Those who are PC haters can have a blast shooting at the PCs littered around with your weaponry.
The countryside is littered with homes that began as barns and pigsties, built under agricultural exemption but which somehow acquired human occupants. Times, Sunday Times
The forex market is littered with failed trading platforms and initiatives, and multibank efforts are notoriously difficult to promote because of often conflicting interests. Banks Bid to Regain Forex Market Clout
The chandelier glittered, its crystal teardrops like small golden suns.
The windows of the big chain bookshops are littered with junk that nobody with a reading age in double figures would want to read. Times, Sunday Times
I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
Within the giant hedge that encircled the island, butterflies flittered about, and the hum of bees filled the air. End of Time
He littered the yard with bottles and cans.
Elizabeth stared at herself in the mirror as her ladies flittered about twisting her hair into elaborate braids and adorning her with jewellery. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
We swept along a beach littered with the bleached skeletons of old boats. Times, Sunday Times
I ducked down in onto my hands and knees, and right before my eyes, I saw the jackknife that Todd was carrying discarded on the ground, it was tremendously shiny, and glittered in the company of a red handle.
Boxes littered the kitchen table, each one packed with knick-knacks and pictures that had been removed from the shelves and walls.
Well the interesting thing about the Marquis de Sade of course, is that his world is littered with Cardinals and Priests and Abbes, so it's not completely unreligious.
The bed had been made, probably just this morning, but pairs of socks already littered the wide planked, wooden floor, along with a braided rug of browns and beiges.
The phrase that once littered political manifestos has now disappeared. Times, Sunday Times
A large diamond glittered on her ring finger .
On the day of our visit meat, vegetables, dirty dishes and greasy pots and pans littered the small counter, sink and floor.
I was filling my new spare time with some overdue house renovation: Rooms were stripped bare and littered with paint chips and fabric swatches, furniture stacked on end in my living room.
The planet, which was laid waste some millennia previously thanks to the stupidity of mankind, is now littered with ruins.
The grass where I stood to take these pictures was littered with empties, mostly bourbon-and-cola bottles.
The streets are littered with potential puppet shows and potential puppeteers.
The toy appeared strangely incongruous, almost an antique among the plastic playthings that littered the floor.
History is littered with examples of fine minds corrupted by their engagement with brute power. Times, Sunday Times
The front doors did not close properly. Heaps of garbage littered the grounds.
It is not untrue to Poe, whose work is littered with beautiful but dead wives.
Shreds of plastic, old iron, glass, animal bones littered both sides of the path.
The peelings of the potatoes were littered all around her, and the shade of the pine tree provided some cool protection from the sun above.
They passed treasuries, armouries, vast stores of knowledge which no-one could read and other, stranger rooms where odd lights glittered and air froze into glittering streamers which hung in the air.
The peals of the Hiltonbury bells rung merrily in the cold air, the snow sparkled bridally, the icicles glittered in the sunset light, the workpeople stood round the house to cheer the arrival, and the sisters hurried out. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
She quenched the thought as soon as it flittered through her mind, but not fast enough. Crimson Wind
The place was littered with barbed wire and rotting lumber and a dozen old boats in various stages of decay.
A string of high street names also littered the Footsie fallers board.
After having to unstrap to walk over a rocky outcrop we arrived at the top of the next slope, which was fairly steep, and littered with rock debris.
Sporting history is littered with unlikely winners but the 750 to 1 Open victor must have a legitimate claim to having produced the biggest one of all.
Knives, forks, spoons, pots and pieces of china littered the kitchen.
It dominated the center of a room littered with thick, heavy black ropes and copper vines.
The floor was of the bare earth, covered in patches with loose plank of various descriptions, and littered over with billets of "lightwood," unwashed cooking utensils, two or three cheap stools, a pine settee -- made from the rough log and hewn smooth on the upper side -- a full-grown bloodhound, two younger canines, and nine half-clad juveniles of the flax-head species. Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
Crystal chandeliers glittered brightly above them.
In that survey Portlaoise was placed 18th in the league and deemed moderately littered.
The cave slopes uphill about 12 [degrees], and the floor is littered with blocks of limestone.
The spell was broken, the notes flittered away as quickly as they had come back to her.
We cut to a dark, sarcophagal bedroom, littered with medicine bottles and crumpled Kleenex. Dont You Forget About Me
The lounge was an unhomelike room, with coco-nut matting on the floor, and wicker chairs and tables which were littered with shiny illustrated papers. Burmese Days
The sky blazed blue, and the ocean glittered with foam from little whitecaps - it was just windy enough to cause them.
Her eyes glittered with delight.
The floor was littered with rusty food cans.
Her large window overlooked the street, with a narrow view of downtown, which was spectacular after dark when the lights glittered in the night sky.
Cricklade Town Council issued a warning to dog owners after receiving numerous complaints that pavements and grass verges were littered with dog mess.
But any form of preparation of food unnerved her and her knitting was littered with dropped stitches. Times, Sunday Times
Following the sound, he passed through a small antechamber into the largest room he had yet discovered, and the most littered. SACRAMENT
His blue eyes glittered with anger.
All the moai came from here, and the mountain is still littered with statues in various stages of completion. Times, Sunday Times
Discarded clothes and old newspapers covered the bed; dirty plates and empty bottles littered the floor.
It was littered with only a few pieces, my king, queen, two rooks and pawn my remaining pieces.
The breeze fanning in off the ocean was dense with brine and the beach was littered with debris.
Vauban never spared himself during the process, and was always on hand, muttering away in a Burgundian dialect littered with forceful neologisms.
Firstly, the film's hacker-as-hero shtick tapped into the geek chic of the dot-com days, before the bubble burst and sidewalks became littered with chubby, goateed types clutching ‘will program for food’ placards.
The dirty grey pavements were littered with cold, lifeless bodies and the only sound came from the biting autumn wind as it ripped through the trees and chilled him to the bone.
Sconces on the wall brightened, then erupted into searing incandescence that glittered on gold and shining jewels.
Light from the setting sun glittered from the strata of ice crystals forming in the thin, frigid air at its upper levels. THE JOE LEAPHORN MYSTERIES
It ended with bodies of soldiers littered in front of us, adorned with vivid flowers. Times, Sunday Times
Patricia, his assistant, had flittered across the room nervously to greet him.
A log-burning stove warms one corner of the bar, while pistachio green walls are littered with caricatures and sketches.
The yard is littered with basketballs, soccer balls, bikes, and, for trips on the nearby river, canoes.
Unlike the previous years when the city's skyline used to be dotted with huge cut-outs of leaders, walls pasted with bills and streets littered with notices of various parties, they look barren still.
The subway tunnel was half-lit as garbage was littered literally everywhere.
There's the forepeak, up in the boat's bow, with the chart table set by the forward windows: the ‘saloon’ a little further back, a deep, square ‘room’ littered with comfortable cushions.
Waste ground on Tile Street was also reported to be badly littered with rubbish.
The beautiful, mountainous countryside is littered with the shallow, unmarked graves of the assassinated.
A pair of bright eyes, shaded by bushy white brows, glittered in his brown face -- seamed and wrinkled like the bark of a gnarled oaklike gay flowers amid withered leaves, forming a strange contrast to his lean, bowed, and shrivelled form. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
It glittered like glass and seemed to stretch out endlessly.
The streets are littered with pollution and the smell of stale urine lingers in the air.
As a result, the ground is littered with craters from asteroid impacts.
The market glittered with colour; the reds of the paprika, the deep blush of the red hot dried chillis.
They were bare, save for bolts and slider pieces that littered the ground.
The three-day summit left the ancient port of Genoa littered with burnt-out cars, smashed windows and vandalised property.
A lamp burned in the kitchen, showing a dirty brick floor and a littered table -- such a house as men keep, untidy and unhomelike. The Amazing Interlude
History is littered with resolute men whose faith and conviction got them into deep doo-doo.
Trinkets that glittered, metallic objects that shined, and even funny shaped circles of varying size and color that had a dull glint to them called to her to touch and explore them.
The dialogue between the characters, while littered with profanities and raw language, is verbose and prosaic.
One is littered with papers, books, CDs, a phone, a stapler, several pens, a box of business cards, etc.
I knew something was up when I passed a table littered with tools, covered in coffee grounds, and bearing a shop vac.
Rather than play down the danger, he happily reported that the entire area is littered with countless land mines.
The dance continued until menus littered the corridor like spent shells. Times, Sunday Times
After all, business history is littered with failed Western investments in China.
But paranormal research and cryptozoology are littered with cases that were deemed irrefutable evidence of the paranormal, only to full apart upon further investigation or hoaxer confessions.
Chinese military music played softly in the background, and black-and-white photocopies of the actual images from which the sculptures were made littered the floor.
"Some of our rural roads are in terrible condition, littered with potholes.
The stadium was littered with the detritus of yesterday's rock concert.
She shut her eyes for a moment, and heard again the alarmed protest of the whaup, and the grumble of the burn; saw again the moonlight patterns upon the ground, as it flittered through the trees, like streams of fairy radiance cast from the magic wand of night and, above all, heard Peter's voice, praising her eyes, her hair, her figure. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
‘Leaving town’ is an ominous return to the fray, hollow like vocals reminiscent of Nick Cave top acoustic guitar swirls, parps of harmonicas and littered with pregnant pauses that belie an icy charm comparable to early Bad Seeds outings.
The film is littered with blatant plugs for a variety of brand names.
She glittered at the elegant table.
His CV is littered with victories in far-flung places and obscure races. Times, Sunday Times
_In the middle of the room, a little to the right, there is a large and comfortable settee, and on the left of the settee is a table littered with books, magazines, a scent-atomizer, a small silver-framed mirror, a case of manicure instruments, a box of cigarettes and a match-stand, and other odds and ends. The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts
What form it would take she hardly knew; events would shape themselves somehow; and then -- the cold blue eyes glittered ominously at the thought of what she termed her reckoning-day. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life
His gold Chain of Office glittered cruelly in the morning sunshine.
Papers littered the top of his desk and spilled off the sides in large clumpy piles of documents.
Time And Time Again – Counting Crows In the time before time, before twitter, before widgets and plugins and animated avatars, I had a blog, and that blog was littered with real names and real faces and real deta Planet-x.com.au » Origins
Someone's fingers flittered across her hand, and she knew it was him.
The sunburst necklace glittered under the water like a lost treasure.
Graffiti are daubed across the surrounding walls and the car park is littered with rubbish and glass. The Sun
His fingers flittered down her face, feeling the same emotion that he had since the moment he met her, longing, love.
Concrete purpose-built resorts are littered across the mountainsides.
Country football is littered with the cast-offs from the elite leagues.
The ceiling of the cathedral glittered with gold.
History is littered with examples of fine minds corrupted by their engagement with brute power. Times, Sunday Times
The narrow vee of sea visible between the shingle banks from her carefully positioned table glittered with blinding beauty. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
Ah! Yuagh!" called the sachem, and two young men stepped forward, toe on the line, glanced each at a framed picture, drew up an arm, and, "Whut-t-t t-e-e-p," whined two knives that flittered through the light and struck quivering, one with its cool kiss on McElroy's cheek, the other just in the edge of the slab at De Courtenay's shoulder. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
It glittered with the intensity of the sun, then brighter, drawing everyone's attention to her instead.
The gullies are littered with wreckage from vessels that have had their bellies ripped out by the pinnacle tops.
The rain-drops glittered as they fell; the grass looked up in refreshed green where the sun touched it; the clouds were driving over from the west, leaving broken fragments behind them upon the blue; and the bright and sweet colours of the rainbow swept their circle in the east and almost finished it in the grass at the door of the blacksmith's shop. The Hills of the Shatemuc
Churches were ablaze with colour, and gold highlights glittered in the light of many candles.
All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design.
For five years, the automaker has littered the roadways with disgruntled owners.
In places the shale had flaked away giving the tower a mottled appearance; black nacreous scales littered the base of the walls and gleamed among the grasses. She Closed Her Eyes
The actress has had a terrible acne problem since high school; her cheeks and forehead are littered with unfortunate pockmarks.
The area is littered with unexploded bombs used in target practice by the RAF during the Second World War.
He indicated the floor, which was littered with stubs, mostly cork-tipped, though there was an occasional scarlet tip here and there. Juggernaut
The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
Ryder looked after him, and her black eye glittered with a kind of fiendish beauty. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
Your essay is littered with spelling mistakes.
The entrance hall is littered with toys and wellington boots.
the unlittered shoulders of the road
All too often the virtual worlds visited by videogamers are illogical, internally inconsistent and littered with disruptive misapplications of design.
Her nephew approached, holding a cooking pot with herbs littered inside it, a pestle and mortar, a ladle, bowl and kindling.

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