littered
- adjective
- /ˈlɪtərd/
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cubierto de basura
- Nervously, Jack glanced down to the street—an ancient, littered side street off one of the city's major expressways—and knew the man could not possibly survive such a fall.
And you don't see bodies littered all over the street like what it says.
- And you don't see bodies littered all over the street like what it says.
- And the seals, the night stalkers came apart, littered on the side of that mountain.
- When you look at most people's expense column, it's filled and littered with payments to other people and liabilities.
- My legs, my calves, like if you took like the inside half, they are absolutely littered with bruises.
- Why they sending us out in light reconnaissance vehicles down the road that they know is littered with IEDs to clear it.
- Honestly, it is littered with lies because Harry only believes in his truth.
- History is littered with examples of people who did the wrong thing by the confines of what that current time agreed on.
- And now I feel like every class could be littered with that.
Examples
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"Come, grandfather," she said, helping the old elf to a less littered stretch of the corridor.
Fiction book (1992) -
The beach was fairly littered with stuff.
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He's at the edge of a weedy, littered field that also happens to be poorly lit.
Fiction book (1999) -
But the road that I travel is littered with dead and dying Internet superstars, and as sure as the sunsets each day, I will join them at some point, maybe soon.
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THIS TOWN IS LITTERED WITH THE TRASHED CAREERS OF THE "ONCE UPON A TIME" MOVIE STARS.
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The park was littered with broken bottles and food wrappers after the festival.
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After the storm, the beach was littered with debris and driftwood.
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The abandoned lot was littered with old tires and discarded furniture.
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Etymology
Littered comes from the older word litter, which meant a 'bed' or a pile of straw that people used for lying down. So, when a place is littered it is like that bed—covered or scattered with things, often rubbish.