How to Use litter in a Sentence

litter

1 of 2 noun
  • We decided to pick up the litter in the park.
  • Her desk was covered with a litter of legal documents.
  • Avoid high grass and leaf litter.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Some vines may be buried in the soil or under leaf litter.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Fill a pair of old socks with the litter and slip one into each boot.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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 hiker had to be put in a rescue litter to be moved.
    — Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Someone at the club pushed back on the idea because of litter.
    — Simon Hughes, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Yard and Pets Keep grass mowed short and clear out leaf litter.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2026
  • As a result kittens in the same litter may not all share the same dad.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Moles have one litter per year, with 3 to 5 babies.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This means a litter of only one puppy.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Don’t clean up leaf litter, seed heads, or hollow stems too quickly!
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 31 July 2023
  • Same breeder from two hours away, same birthday, same litter.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Kali Palmer with Peach and the litter of puppies.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Keep your yard free of debris, such as leaf litter, stones, rocks, logs and woodpiles.
    — Eva Flowe june 26, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2026
  • Then head out to collect litter at a park or neighborhood of choice.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Sweep away the kitty litter and debris.
    — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Younger felines tend to have smaller litters.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • A lot of litters try to solve odor by overpowering it.
    — Svetlana Khachiyan, USA Today, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Everyone had to get off the beach so that workers can clean up the litter.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Avoid busy and wooded areas that contain high grass and leaf litter.
    — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 5 May 2023
  • Many species overwinter in the crevices of tree bark or beneath leaf litter.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Also, kitty litter and sand help with traction if you do get stuck.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Thick leaf litter will prevent the grass seed from making soil contact.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Nov. 2025
  • But then the mothers of those robust pups fed more milk to the smallest pups in the litter.
    — Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • Michu has sold the equivalent of four bags of litter every minute since launch.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Outdoors, they can be found in rock piles and leaf litter, says Gordon.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Picking up all leaf litter helps to disrupt their life cycle.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
  • 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

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.
  • Loose lyric sheets littered the floor.
    — Jane Bua, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Broken glass litters the floor of the crash test hall.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Trees had been snapped in half and branches littered the ground.
    — Emily Anthes Emil T. Lippe, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Glass’s own past is littered with tragedy and heartbreak.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • The bed was littered with trash; the floor was littered with trash.
    — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Small, pointy rocks littered the sand where there were none before.
    — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Pedestals where statues once stood littered the ground.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • Roads were littered with limbs and branches, and some were caked in mud.
    — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
  • In a park where her children liked to play, dead fish littered the ground.
    — Laura Schulte, jsonline.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This is a great way to use all those autumn leaves littering the lawn.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Broken glass litters the floor.
    — Michael Butler, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
  • And a loss is often littered with what-ifs to some extent.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The street in front of her building was littered with rubble and corpses.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Try not to litter or disrupt nature too much.
    — Khadejeh Nikouyeh, Charlotte Observer, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Steep fjord walls around the island are littered with the scars of past rockslides.
    — Paul Bierman, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There are still trees uprooted and littered all across lawns and streets in the area.
    — Samuel O’Neal 27, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The floor is littered with markers, crayons, and sheets of paper.
    — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The sound of water wafts up from below and the night sky above is littered with stars.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Windows were blown out and debris littered the streets.
    — Yarden Segev, NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Carbine said that fireworks littered the front yard and trash and tire marks scarred the lawn.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Plots littered with junked trunks, empty skid tanks, the rib cages of hoop houses picked clean.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • Debris still litters parts of the landscape.
    — Luciana Perez Uribe Guinassi, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The officer tells her that’s littering and asks her to step out of the car.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Shell cases littered the floors of many of the modest houses.
    — Matt Gutman, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • When fields are often littered with the decay of city life, this field is pristine.
    — Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026

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