Littered
[litəd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Litter
Edited by Darrell
Examples
- The place in front was littered with straw where the vans had been laden and rolled off. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The carpet round his chair was littered with cigarette-ends and with the early editions of the morning papers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His weapons and shields and other little store of treasures were littered about. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They went into a dingy room lined with books and littered with papers, where there was a blazing fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was a desert, weed-grown waste, littered thickly with stones the size of a man's fist. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Darrell