littering

Definition of litteringnext
present participle of litter

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Rather than have their payroll and egos be kindling for clubhouse dysfunction, the Dodgers have found a formula to keep their winning ways going.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Even minor parks or embers might be carried into leaves or grass, kindling a fire that can swiftly expand.
    KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Below is a recap of the C-suite developments at America’s highest-revenue-generating companies announced between March 28–April 3, 2026, organized by sector.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Because developers are generating exponentially more tokens to drive performance and agentic behavior.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • DeVos wasn’t kidding, and on Monday, in front of close friends and family, current and former Magic executives and employees and local community leaders, a plaque was unveiled with Martins’ name on it at the Orlando Magic Hall of Fame that’s located in Kia Center on the terrace level.
    Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2026
  • McKneely wasn’t kidding about the staples being removed.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • By the early summer, most of the bass have finished spawning in the shallows and have now pushed back to deeper water to find their summer haunts.
    Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The Iconic Design The Panthella, by Scandinavian lighting brand Louis Poulsen, is a design that’s been celebrated since its launch in the ’70s, spawning many more mushroom lamps in the decades since.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Here are two simple methods for propagating ZZ plants.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 10 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Both cases were fodder for a media firestorm, begetting nightly news specials and full-length documentaries.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The discovery, age five, that some people did not live in communities with all goods in common—that in fact for most, home was a locked building full of private property—begat questions still begetting questions at age thirteen.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Despite religious and phenotypic differences, people around the western Mediterranean Sea have been interacting, trading, warring, migrating, and reproducing together for centuries.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Delivering bad news In 2001, Jesse faced a scandal for having an affair that resulted in him fathering a child.
    Rick Davis, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Crowe believes that Maximus fathering a son with a woman other than his wife tarnishes his character's legacy, as the gladiator's primary motivation in the original film is to avenge the deaths of his wife and son.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
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“Littering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littering. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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