Read full poem →In laughing friendship round about her fall
To helpen gather up the littered flowers
That she no loss may mourn. And now the wind
Dictionary Entry
To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).
In a Sentence
“By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “littered”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He came to a fence and clambered over it. On the far side,
the ground was littered with clothes and guns. A newspaper,
folded up, lay in the dirt. A dead soldier was stretched with his
Read full poem →Deep into grassier ditches. So we drowse, sun-dozed,
Littered with blossoms trickling where the blackbird fusses.
Is it that we are dying?