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Example sentences for "cluttered"

Lexicographically close words:
clutch; clutched; clutches; clutching; clutter; cluttering; clyme; clypeus; clyster; clysters
  1. She went within, very much excited, and upon his cluttered bureau, with his traveling case tumbling its contents over the fresh linen cover, she laid the important sheet.

  2. Their cabins reeked with dirt and were always cluttered with children.

  3. He glanced about the cluttered city room, now suddenly grown large and empty.

  4. Its owner was sitting in a chair in the middle of a little space cluttered up with discarded exchanges and galley proofs.

  5. He bombarded her with imported candy and American beauties, and cluttered up the spring with a series of whist parties, which butted into the social calendar something frabjous.

  6. A door at one end of the office led into a much bigger, still more cluttered room.

  7. Mr. Bradley waved toward a doorway at one end of the big, people-cluttered living room.

  8. Seventeen years all cluttered up with bed casters, bathtub stoppers, and poultry wiring.

  9. The usual futilities with which such occasions can be cluttered and which have shaped the destinies of immemorial women into a tyranny of petty things.

  10. Another burst in the coal bunks and cluttered up the engine room.

  11. He raised his head and looked at the hills where his cattle would feed, and pictured it cluttered with gold-hunters, greedy, undesirable interlopers doomed to disappointment in the long run.

  12. Larry Hegan had similar casts and photographs in his book-cluttered quarters.

  13. Two thousand miles away it flowed into Bering Sea, and it was the ice conditions of Bering Sea that would determine when the Yukon could rid itself of the millions of tons of ice that cluttered its breast.

  14. He cast one weary glance around the cluttered office, then steeled himself into a passable imitation of military carriage as he left for the lecture hall.

  15. Reilly sighed, and swiveled his chair until he could see through the one cluttered window.

  16. Letitia's address-book had named the street, which she thought unkempt and cluttered and noisy for an editor to live in, though doubtless he had wished to be near his desk.

  17. Hiram Ptolemy touched it gingerly, fumbled it, dropped it by his chair, and, still preserving his embarrassed silence, fished it up again from the cluttered floor.

  18. Hansen had returned to the basement Situation Room, where maps and operation plans cluttered the teakwood table and littered meal trays, grease encrusting on the white china, were piled up in the corner.

  19. The weather-beaten benches and tables were cluttered with maps of Andikythera and blueprints of the SatCom facility, scattered among half-empty bottles of ouzo and Metaxa.

  20. Here Van Horn was swept off his legs by an avalanche of return boys who had cluttered the deck with the first squall.

  21. She was not small like the Arangi, nor was she cluttered fore and aft, on deck and below, with a spawn of niggers.

  22. The Arangi certainly was, along with the life that cluttered her deck.

  23. The deck was cluttered with an exciting crowd.

  24. I'll take her to Italy, away from all the mess that has cluttered about our love for each other.

  25. In one part of it stood several upholstered chairs with covers on, cluttered about a plain table.

  26. The Colonel cleared a space on the cluttered table, and spread open the paper he had brought.

  27. In his own cluttered old workshop at home he had memorized every movement of manipulating ailerons, elevators, rudder.

  28. Table top, dresser top, every available surface in his sleeping quarters seemed cluttered with aviation trash.

  29. No one was hidden among the benches that were cluttered with beakers and test tubes and stills, or among the dynamos and transformers in the other end of the room.

  30. The ends of the vast room were cluttered with electrical and chemical apparatus; but Larry's eye was caught at once by a strange and complex device, which loomed across from him, in the center of the floor.

  31. The trails were cluttered with algae and fucus plants, hosts of crustaceans swarming among them.

  32. I observed that these Mediterranean depths became more and more cluttered with such gruesome wreckage as the Nautilus drew nearer to the Strait of Gibraltar.

  33. He raved about the cluttered chamber for a moment, almost dancing up and down in his anger and chagrin, and then sat limply down on the pile of shale.

  34. As the boys advanced they found the gangway considerably cluttered with "gob," or refuse, and the air was none of the best.

  35. The young secretary turned his own grave eye upon the cluttered desk; but it was not dread of the redoubtable tasks awaiting him that gave his face all the gravity it bore.

  36. He stood careless, slipshod, at the side of a desk cluttered with a mass of maps, papers, letters in packets or spread open.

  37. His compositions are overburdened and cluttered and marred by all sorts of erudite turns and twists and manoeuvers.

  38. Too often Sibelius's individuality is cluttered and muffled by that of other men.

  39. Their lives are cluttered with gadgets and fringe benefits.

  40. The West has littered and cluttered the planet with an immense variety and with enormous quantities of gimmicks and gadgets from tin cans to airplanes that fly faster than sound, and rockets that carry their occupants to the moon.

  41. He made for the far hillside that was cluttered with huge fragments of stone, some weighing many tons and all tumbled helter-skelter as if aimlessly tossed there by some giant hand.

  42. When Mary Louise entered the store, which was cluttered with all sorts of goods, not arranged in very orderly manner, there were several farmers present.

  43. They would just take their places at the end of the long row of meaningless, disturbing, vicious facts that cluttered up his mind.

  44. The useful, necessary legislation is going through Congress now without being cluttered up by stupid dam bills and water bills and other idiocies that simply clog the works.

  45. But, loiter as she might, she soon reached a neighborhood where rows of narrow brick tenements brooded over dingy, cluttered basement shops.

  46. Urban folks, coming to Virginia in the early twentieth century, and visiting rural areas, were wont to comment upon the inevitable horse-collars and harness that usually held a prominent place in the cluttered country store.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cluttered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.