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Example sentences for "littered"

Lexicographically close words:
litterary; litteras; litterateur; litterateurs; litterature; littering; litteris; litters; littery; little
  1. Even here his poor little rooms had been ransacked, drawers and tables upset and their contents littered over the floor, and everything of the smallest value stolen by the Germans.

  2. Billie's heart sank as she approached the ladder, stumbling over bits of junk and rubbish that littered the floor.

  3. The girls picked their way over the rubbish that littered the floor.

  4. This, however, was smaller, the floor littered with various articles, the nature of which I found it difficult to determine in such dim light.

  5. Here, as in front, clothing of all descriptions littered the floor; and also there were signs that a violent struggle had taken place.

  6. Books and papers littered the floor, and were strewn over a mattress that, evidently dragged from the inner room, had been swaddled around the safe to deaden the sound of the explosion.

  7. The whole length of the road to the Petrofsky Palace was littered with odds and ends of all kinds, especially with broken bottles thrown away by the soldiers.

  8. The room was littered with clothes, and Michael could not move a step without entangling his feet in a petticoat or treading upon hidden shoes.

  9. Too many reminders of departure littered the rooms with their foreboding of finality.

  10. When he tried the door and found it locked, and the littered room beyond it empty, he was minded to go on to the rendezvous while daylight served.

  11. It was as she had seen it before--littered with books, with strips of proof-sheets, and dust.

  12. A confused dread seized her when she saw the floor littered with books and papers lying about in parcels.

  13. It was littered with damp leaves, but it would do.

  14. A fire was burning; the place was littered with books and drawing-boards.

  15. She left the newspaper, littered with curls, spread upon the hearthrug.

  16. It was littered with straw and boxes, and cardboard.

  17. It was littered with rubble from the water, but at any rate it was easier.

  18. Lumber, merchandise, supplies of every description, littered the street in mounds and scattered heaps, awaiting the erection of tent-house and building.

  19. Edmund Crowther turned from his littered writing-table, and rose to greet his visitor with a ready smile of welcome.

  20. Daffodils and primroses were littered all around Avery, and a certain subdued pleasure was hers as she decked the place with the spring flowers.

  21. He smiled a quivering smile, and glanced momentarily towards the littered table.

  22. When she was freed at last, Nell looked round the room littered with boots, hats, frocks, collars.

  23. She seemed quite relaxed now that her head could lie back against the leather cushion, and her gaze traveled about the dingy littered room with a kind of tender inquisitiveness as if she were memorizing its contents.

  24. He sat for a moment gazing abstractedly at his littered table, clutching the edges of it with both hands, resisting a momentary vertigo of his own.

  25. The street in a few moments was clear of pedestrians; remained littered with glass from the broken bottles.

  26. The northern city streets were littered with the bodies of people who had rushed from their homes and fallen in the heat, the wild winds and the suffocating smoke outside.

  27. In a few days his dressing-table was littered with a great variety of infallible hair-growers.

  28. The room was long, lined for the most part with books bound in what they call "divinity calf," and littered with papers like a barrister's table on assize day.

  29. Where the cutway caved to a hollow lay a hole littered with empty cans and canvas bags.

  30. He went to the library and sat down at his desk, littered with papers and accounts taken from Fishpingle’s room by the ex-butler and placed by him on the desk.

  31. To divide great estates into small holdings of individual ownership might seem a sound solution to economists who wrote incisive articles in rooms littered with works of reference.

  32. Four thousand of the Catholics were killed and wounded, and three thousand of the Protestants littered the field.

  33. THE SONG OF BELIT The jungle was a black colossus that locked the ruin-littered glade in ebon arms.

  34. But they found only smoking ruins on the shore of a bay, littered with naked black bodies.

  35. They exuded an aura tangible as the black mist rising from a corpse-littered swamp.

  36. Piles and packages of ammunition littered the table.

  37. The streets are littered with dead, with pikes and lances hastily cast aside, with muskets and plumed bonnets, with broken rubbish and wheelless wagons, and scraps of cloth or shoes or leather belts.

  38. There she found the nursery littered with things, chairs in unusual places, some overturned, and Lucy lying on the floor crying, with a cut on her lip, which was bleeding.

  39. In two minutes the forward deck bore a horrible resemblance to a shambles, for it was littered with injured men and blood was trickling down the white planks into the scuppers.


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