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Meanings of littered in English

Filled or scattered with a disorderly accumulation of objects or rubbish.

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Usage of littered in English
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Besides, the industry is littered with examples of minority investments gone wrong.
Reuters
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After decades of conflict, Iraq has been left littered with unexploded booby-traps.
The Guardian
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The 80 minutes of normal time were littered with penalties and stoppages.
The Irish Times
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Popular music is littered with examples of great songs resulting from strife.
Radio NZ
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Britain is littered with places that used to have a distinctive character.
The Guardian
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Household gear lay scattered in the yard and even littered the avenue.
Patsy
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He could detect nothing unusual in the appearance of the littered table.
The Golden Scorpion
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In one famous photograph from the Crimean War, bombs littered the road.
BBC
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The straw in which their contents had been wrapped littered the floor.
Gossamer
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History is littered with question marks, like bones under an ancient battlefield.
The Irish Times
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The history of the video gaming industry is littered with one-hit wonders.
Reuters
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In the past six months, that path has been littered with obstacles.
The Irish Times
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Peter picked his way across the debris-littered floor to an east-facing window.
Bulletproof bride
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The wood split under their pressure, and the pieces littered the table.
The Man in the Twilight
15
The path to justice was littered with the land mines of cross-examination.
By reason of insanity
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The sprawling environment in GTA: San Andreas is littered with arcade cabinets.
Wired
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South Africa
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Australia
Common
Ireland
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