How to Use litter in a Sentence

litter

1 of 2 noun
Definition of litternext
Synonyms for litternext
  • We decided to pick up the litter in the park.
  • Her desk was covered with a litter of legal documents.
  • In the litter of sycamore and oak leaves and the carpet of newborn grass, something caught my eye.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Yet, high-tech has come even to the task of removing litter.
    — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 11 Apr. 2024
  • And oh my God, Dixie Highway is a hot mess with the litter.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Muskrats can have up to three litters each year, with between six and eight kits each.
    — Patrick Camp The Cullman Times, al, 7 July 2023
  • The high sides kept most of the litter in, though there still was a bit of litter tracking from our cat tester.
    — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2023
  • That’s when the fire creeps across on the bottom of the forest floor, cleaning up some old leaf litter.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Along with litter washing ashore, the seabirds often pick up plastics from the ocean.
    — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2024
  • My goal with each litter is to keep breeding a better dog.
    — Kyle Wintersteen, Field & Stream, 30 Jan. 2023
  • We were blown away by its suction, which was able to pick up dirt, dust, crumbs, cat litter, and hair in just one pass.
    — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The newest cubs are the third Amur leopard litter born at the San Diego Zoo, according to the news release.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The genus is known to feed on deadwood, dead leaves, leaf litter or lichens, according to Hoare.
    — Rina Diane Caballar, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The cats are then released back to the streets to live out their lives, but without leaving litters behind.
    — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
  • In a recording of their video call, seen by CNN, rubble litters the land where the cemetery once stood.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
  • According to Roache, three dogs were rescued and a litter of puppies was killed in the blaze.
    — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Many species overwinter in the crevices of tree bark or beneath leaf litter.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Then head out to collect litter at a park or neighborhood of choice.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The average litter size is four to five pups, which subsist on their mother’s milk for the first five to nine weeks of their lives.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
  • As a volunteer with a few laps around the track under his belt, Boone is no stranger to an odd find in the litter left behind.
    — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 May 2023
  • Each mother never left her litter, not even to feed, and the hatchlings wriggled around on her back and nuzzled up to the end of her body.
    — Sofia Quaglia, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • To preserve moisture, add 1-2 inches of mulch such as pine straw, bark mulch, or leaf litter.
    — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
  • That second litter was then carried down to a parking lot.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The Milwaukee River, which cut through the heart of downtown, was a dumping grounds for litter, runoff — even sewage.
    — Genevieve Redsten, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Avoid busy and wooded areas that contain high grass and leaf litter.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
  • Don’t clean up leaf litter, seed heads, or hollow stems too quickly!
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
  • Today, they are known to be part of a litter of at least 95 moons orbiting the giant planet.
    — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The sun dries out the vegetation; trees shed leaves to preserve water; the litter becomes fuel for the next fire.
    — Alex Cuadros, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Donations: Dry and wet pet food, pop-up kennels, treats and litter.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Firefighters found the tube – with Seamus inside, staring back at them among the dirt and litter.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2023
Advertisement

litter

2 of 2 verb
  • He had to pay a fine for littering.
  • Paper and popcorn littered the streets after the parade.
  • It is illegal to litter.
  • The streets of the city of Sderot were littered with bodies.
    — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Roads were littered with limbs and branches, and some were caked in mud.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The sound of water wafts up from below and the night sky above is littered with stars.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Most fields along the lower Dnieper are littered with mines.
    — Susanne Wengle, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • Trees had been snapped in half and branches littered the ground.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • With steep hills on all sides littered with thick brush and blowdown, this bear would be a chore to get to.
    — Kevin Farron, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The history of the Cold War is littered with near misses.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Although the trail has been open for less than two weeks, the path is already littered with refuse.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Large pieces of the crane littered the street below after falling down the side of the building.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • The staff wasn’t going to be littered with guys that had a real idea of who to go talk to and when to go talk to and how to talk to them.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 26 July 2023
  • Shell cases littered the floors of many of the modest houses.
    — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Small, pointy rocks littered the sand where there were none before.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Videos from the beach show the pangas and an array of life jackets littering the sand of Black's Beach.
    — Brandon Livesay, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Much of the home's roof appeared to have been blown or burnt off, with debris littering the yard.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 26 May 2023
  • Holes marred the front door, while others littered the white stucco around the front windows.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 13 July 2023
  • Some folks take their trees down right away, and the streets of many neighborhoods are littered with Christmas trees on the first few days of the new year.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 11 Nov. 2023
  • For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Debris littered the site, and a row of mail delivery trucks stood with their sides and roofs blown out.
    — Isobel Koshiw, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The front door was broken and a window was shattered, with shards of glass littering the ground.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The tracks were no longer littered with boxes; new fencing and barbed wire had been put up beside them.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Clothes are piled on a bed and chair; the floor is littered with debris, computer equipment and trash.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The road to more reasonable prices for new and used cars remains littered with potholes.
    — Christopher Hickey, CNN, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The cost of Airbnb rentals has increased, and social media is littered with user complaints about the prices.
    — Trey Williams, Fortune, 4 May 2023
  • Oak Ridge sprang to life from ground littered with the detritus of uprooted lives.
    — Denise Kiernan, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
  • With both of his starts this spring coming on the road, the right-hander has faced two lineups littered with regulars.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Not the smell of putrefaction, though the novel is littered with rotting corpses.
    — Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The state is littered with cameras displaying live feeds from the southeastern corner to the northwest tip of the Upper Peninsula.
    — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'litter.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: