| 单词 | litter |
| 例句 | The benches on either side were littered with broken pottery. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Is the riverbank a delightful spot to watch diving ducks, or is it lifeless greasy muck littered with bottles and tires? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Bull turned toward the far wall and, giving a signal to the other pilots in the room, all thirteen of them hurled their glasses into the fireplace already littered with bright shards of glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I kicked aside a few empty boxes and trash, and saw, mixed in with the litter of plastic bags, a small red glove. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Another moment passed, and a sandaled foot emerged from the litter. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It isn’t something you drop in the litter basket or on the ground. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And at least the mother of a litter sticks around and nurses her pups no matter how sharp their teeth are. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Lydia offered to clean the litter box, too. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was because she was stunted in growth, or maybe because she was the runt in a large litter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z On one flat street I passed a junkyard, littered with the carcasses of old cars. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor of their cage was littered with pieces of popcorn and gum wrappers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Sean said they would let her have one litter and see if her kittens could earn their keep even if she couldn’t. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Nurse went scuttling off through the crowd, bent over the huge yellow Yunkishman in his litter, whispered in his ear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The footmen lifted the litter, and we began walking. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Our squad was on perimeter patrol while others lifted the litters onto the choppers. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Rhyming words took their form from children's books—the smallest pig in the litter, the hounds pursuing the fox, the flat-bottomed boats on the Cam by Grantchester meadow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He had a passion for trains—his office was littered with books about the history of railroads, model locomotives, paintings of trains trundling on tracks through green hills and over bridges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Doc pushed aside the ingredients littering his table to make room for the man to lean on. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Between the edge of the burned forest and the mountains, a rocky slope of heavy boulders and scree was littered with scorched and twisted metal: girders and struts that had belonged to some complex machine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell her about my dream where a man chased me down a rocky path littered with bruised al- lamanda leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z A hearse, its blazing headlights beaded with rain, drove into the warehouse, and the body, placed on a litter and shrouded under a blanket, was carried to the hearse and out into the night. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t crazy about the idea of holding something that had touched Chet’s sweat, but I’d already littered the woods with my mother’s old bowls. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “It’s like the first time we met, when Celia rescued you from the chicken litter.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The place was littered with torsos and limbs and heads. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He loaded everything from his stand into the wagon, making sure he didn't leave a scrap of litter behind. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z As they turned onto an even dustier, more littered road than the one the hotel was on, Lupita glanced at Salvador’s face. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Various unusual objects littered the room—a birdcage, a phonograph, a battle-ax, a hanging scale, a mannequin, a globe the size of a beach ball. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Even so, her feet became entangled with items of clothing that littered the floor. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The ground was so littered, with limbs and tree-tops sticking every which way, that it was hard to get through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “More,” said the little boy, fishing another bottle cap from the litter. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The tunnel floor was littered with ceramic shards and silver coins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Well, say you leave the tap running while you clean your teeth, or leave the house with a light burning, or drop a piece of litter and can’t be bothered to pick it up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Talc saw again Mr. Reilly with his massive muffler and that awful girl anarchist with the valise who traveled around with Mr. Reilly and littered the campus with leaflets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Chunks of brick littered the grass in front of her. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Around her feet, the ground was littered with what looked like broken shells. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The monkey tree usually hangs out over a river, so that they can relieve themselves from the branches without littering the ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm had littered the shore and he walked the tideline looking for anything of use. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Luke stepped inside, barely taking notice of the beer cans littering the floor. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The floor was littered with skeletons in Roman armor and Imperial gold weapons encrusted with frost. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Finally seven or eight Spaniards on horseback spurred on their horses, rushed upon the litter from one side, and with great effort they heaved it over on its side. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On reaching the center of the plaza, Atahuallpa remained in his litter on high, while his troops continued to file in behind him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The whole meadow is littered with knocked-over tubes and blackened boxes, empty shells that are still venting plumes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He just sat there with his head against the seat and his eyes closed, ignoring the proof of better days that littered the floor and the seat and the crotch of his jeans. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We passed by burned-out buildings and weedy, littered vacant lots. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There’s fresh litter in the entrance, cola cups and newspaper. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Puppies don’t deserve to be called a litter like they had been dropped carelessly like garbage. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see the emperor, and the Villac Uma rarely left the litter. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z So one day, not long after one of Bristol’s mutts gave birth to a litter, the men all went to the barn to put their tools away. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Rolls of parchment littered that part of his desk that was not taken up by the large, empty cage in which his snowy owl, Hedwig, usually perched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Broken bottles and fast-food wrappers litter the sidewalks, a few houses are boarded up, and just about every building is tagged with graffiti curse words, but the Allens’ place is actually pretty nice. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind Atahuallpa came two other litters and two hammocks, in which were some high chiefs, then several squadrons of Indians with crowns of gold and silver. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hood was there, in a big tent, on a litter. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “How big? Coyotes out here. They have pups this time of year. They’ll take down a small dog when they have a litter to protect.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Another farmer “raises hogs and for fully nine months after the broadcast of poisons, he could raise no young pigs. The litters were born dead or they died after birth.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Versions of the picture litter the table and floor. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony—sticks, droppings, feathers, a broken egg and a dead nestling or two. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And people who litter shouldn’t be given a cute name for what they do. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But to use a grenade down here, in such close quarters, beneath rubble presumably littered with live 88-millimeter shells, would be suicide. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Some rode litters or sedan chairs, some forked donkeys, many were afoot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The horses plodded on, the litter creaking and swaying between them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Willit was borne in on a litter, so grievous were his wounds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Old railway cars litter the junkyard, faded and rusted with age. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Only the man who had fallen off the boulder needed to be carried back to Sister Gladys’s hospital, and to be on the safe side a litter was used for Baba Joseph as well. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was littered with cracks and broken boulders and tumbled heaps of rock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Judging from the piles of soggy, chewed-up scraps that littered the steps, the boys had been gnawing their way through each one. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She saw the old stump littered with her herbs and potions. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But I didn't say I wouldn’t do the kitty litter! she wanted to protest. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “No. She does not have a litter box in her room.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I guess I’ll leave him with lots of food, and I’ll tell Susanna to bring one of you over here every other day to clean his litter box.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He’d wished to inspect one of the pregnant hounds, though he knew it was impossible to predict the outcome of the litter until she gave birth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The litter swayed side to side, a soothing movement that made him feel as if he were a child being rocked to sleep in his mother’s arms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But Lasaraleen told her that litters were only used in the city and the sight of one going out through the gate would be certain to lead to questions. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Now it was trampled and littered like a fairgrounds. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Our streets will stink of rotting litter. We’ll be overrun with rats.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of nut falling from his beak littered his breast feathers. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When she's satisfied that there's no other litter to collect, she walks over to the garbage can just a few feet away from me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Except what to do with the cats’ litter box? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In this they are aided by the toil of the earthworms, who feed in the leaf litter, for elm leaves are among their favorite foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “This is a grave situation. Your city is bankrupt. Your streets are littered and filthy. Your homes are rundown and your industry is gone. Something must be done!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The plaster was pitted and peeling—pieces littered the floor as if someone had recently punched the wall and no one had bothered sweeping up afterward. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The evidence was unmistakable: the grass had been trampled by horses’ feet; the ground was littered with the stubs of halfsmoked cigars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t have any extra paper with me except for a Snickers wrapper that I had put in my pocket because I didn’t want to litter. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All over the room, greasy-looking cans and tools littered the floor. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She spotted the shop immediately—a small hut in a yard littered with rickshaw panels, tools, cans of paint, leather benches, and tires. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z They were maybe a Lab-collie mix, black and brown with long hair and of a pretty good size, probably from the same litter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The slope was littered with brittle dead logs and broken branches, the debris of many cold, windy winters. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The courtyard was littered with clothing, broken crockery, shoes, books, and various personal items. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was littered with empty cartridge cases dropped by hunters who had dealt out death in this silent place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We do have the unsavories nowadays, but they do little more than drop occasional pieces of litter and move shop items to places they don’t belong. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z On the threshold stood Matthew Wood, staring from his awful height at the littered room, the gowns tumbled over chairs and benches, and the guilty faces of his womenfolk. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A blizzard of crumbs and pointy violet olive pits litter the tabletop. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And immediately Lasaraleen sat up in the litter and burst out at the top of her voice. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The yellow enormity was squirming in his litter, a look of annoyance on his huge pie face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sometimes we’d pick randomly from the litter of shiny squares scattered across my comforter, and we’d laugh at Fang clowning for the camera, all pumped up after one big climb or another. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Thanks to his fascination with plastic, something I discovered when the shower curtain was riddled with tiny bite marks, my bedroom now had the honor of housing his litter box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Even as Luke stepped carefully around the pieces of metal littering the ground, he was surprised by the ferocity of the job. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “It’s hard to believe that he was the runt of the litter. You’ll get some extra good ham and bacon, Homer, when it comes time to kill that pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z And then, behind the litter, there came another one. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Knowing that the road behind me is littered with strange fruit. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes! So many boys go there for engineering. You’ll have the pick of the litter.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Scyld lay on a silver litter at the water's edge and watched with tears as the ship was made ready. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z After two weeks, no trace remained of the litter of dead fishes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A huge pile of dead ones littered the base of the tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She suggested that she could be carried out in the litter with the curtains drawn. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z One of the gardeners passed me with a barrow full of bits of paper, and litter, and the skins of fruit left on the lawns by the people last night. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Nifflers live in lairs up to twenty feet below the surface and produce six to eight young in a litter. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The bank was littered with the crow-picked remains of perch and crayfish and turtles and frogs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The crowd had finished their peaches and the ground was littered with peach pits. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The remnants of her morning meal littered the table—sardine heads, olive pits, chunks of flatbread. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The ground is littered with tools—wrenches, wire cutters in various sizes, hammers, and a few others that I don’t recognize. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Papers and diagrams and maps of different places littered a desk against one wall. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Bran thought he was the smartest of the litter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The king rode on a litter, surrounded by Praise Singers, musicians and dancers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A woman calls to me, and I turn my head toward the front drive, where she sweeps the litter of the storm. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Fragments of cloth, trees, chewed bits of paper littered the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the hounds that searched for bones among the straw litter learned to come to Robin for tidbits, seeming to know that he had found a special friend. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Some three years before, he had been born—the strongest of a litter of five—in a burrow outside a cottage garden near Cole Henley. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In English on Friday, Mr. Van Deusen gives us his pitch for the after-school highway litter removal project. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Strollers littered the walkways, with young children weaving between them and screaming with glee. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z They moved on to the next post, Mustard on their heels, muzzle littered with ant parts. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The pot-shops would give you a fistful of coppers for a litter of pups, she'd heard, but she didn't like to think about that. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We entered rooms littered with the signs of swift emptying. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When she bent down to pick up her litter, she spotted the maroon edge of a book jammed between the can and the wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Empty coffee cups rested on every surface; take-out packaging littered the ground. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “With a bit of luck, they might each have a litter before the winter,” said Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Perched beside the stove, their family’s house spirit examined the mess of chopped herbs and leftover stems that littered the countertop. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z His boys trailed behind him like a litter of puppies. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “But there’s a new litter living down in the cobhouse now, and I let ’em. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The pages of my freshman-year diary are littered with his name. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z A group of guards stood facing a large iron box, shattered glass littering the floor at their feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z A building was burning to his left, and one walkway was littered with the dead, marking the passage of one of the scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Millions of gallons of water wasted, millions of lights burning, millions of pieces of litter, much of it harmful. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I guess that must have been crowded, but for me it was warm and cozy, and as nice as being in a litter of puppies. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On our side of the highway was nothing but maple trees and litter from passing cars. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The street below me is quiet now, except for the sound of straw brooms sweeping the day’s litter into small piles on side streets. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a massive bird’s nest—a gryphon's nest—the bottom littered with old pieces of jewelry, an Imperial gold dagger, a dented centurion’s badge, and two pumpkin-sized eggs that looked like real gold. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The rough scraping left his scalp tender, littered with nicks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I’ll be reporting that man, he’s more concerned about litter than proper security if you ask me... But why are you out here, Harry?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “So they kept you on litter like a barnyard fowl. Tell me, boy, did you learn to cackle?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have ditched it, but that would have been the same as littering. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They were nearing the edge of Lkossa, a grittier part of the city littered with old crates, debris, and other filth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with the bodies of attackers who had fallen prey to the flames in the ill-starred venture of the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The few teachers the town did have were not exactly the pick of the litter, as Dad liked to say, and despite the shortage, one would get fired from time to time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s hope they’re back soon. I’m looking forward to a nice doe and a litter of kittens in my burrow. Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The alley was littered with crumpled papers and dented hubcaps, with old rubber tires and empty pop cans, and Sairy quickened her pace, feeling uneasy in this unfamiliar place. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I can do the kitty litter,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Broken trees and fractured palm leaves littered the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Rubble and broken glass littered the floor, but I barely noticed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Nice commentary last match!” said Ron to Luna as she took back the green onion, the toadstool, and the cat litter. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The aircraft’s final pass pulled all the litter of their lunch out into the field, brown crusts and brown paper fluttering in the blue smoke like the devil’s confetti. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And there was no litter; everyone was on foot. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Their leaves littered the terrace, blown into piles in the corners. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z That weed-filled yard was littered with balls and tools and shoes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The vinyl seats smelled stale and moldering and were littered with bits of caramel popcorn and skeins of hair and dried-up splatters of soda. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The soil was littered with boulders, the spaces between with deep sand, where the harvester wallowed and complained before struggling on. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke has taken up a permanent residence, and glass and all kinds of trash litter the streets. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z My brother was born in my mother’s second litter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I carried a full scoop of litter—not once but twice—down the hall to the bathroom and dumped it into the toilet. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He was all alone, he thought, apart from the others in the litter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Real digging is done for the most part by does preparing for litters. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z From the height of the tanker’s deck, Bright Sands Beach stretched into the distance, a tarred expanse of sand and puddled seawater, littered with the savaged bodies of other oil tankers and freighters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z "A contribution to the Big Brother Fund. Now clean up your things and don't leave any litter behind." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z One wall was crowded with tacked-up plans and schematics; another was piled high with tinkerer junk; the bench TimeStar occupied was littered with snipped wires, and tools, and computer equipment. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Trashman searched the litter on the platform until he found a bottle cap. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He accepted a hand up into the litter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Behind a scarred littered table a man with a fierce roach of iron gray hair peered at us over steel spectacles. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets are covered with litter and filled with cavernous potholes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The tiny outcroppings of rocks and lonesome islets in the extreme south are littered with the wreckage of dead ships. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And so it was that the litter box landed up in the nook off the kitchen, where the love seat used to be. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The table was littered with the heaped remains of what must have been a great feast. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The toll collector had a couple of knickknacks littered across the surface: a unicorn with its wings outstretched and a tiny clay bear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Stone and the remnants of broken trees littered the streets of the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z We made as many litters as we could to carry out the wounded. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At Mother’s house I recently found my dusty Complete Emily Dickinson with its margins littered shockingly by my old palindromes: Evil deed live! croaked that other Adah, and I wonder, Which evil was it, exactly? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pair wandered through the dimly lit, littered, and stinking street, bending over grimy bums asleep in doorways, raising them to their unsteady feet, and leading the ragtag procession into a decaying storefront. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A few of the books had been shaken roughly enough to part company with their covers, and sundry pages littered the floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z "See that my litter is readied, I'll be leaving the castle as soon as I'm done here." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The floor of his locker was littered with empty snack bags that Jasmine had slid through the door vent between classes over the last two days. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z He even refused to use the litter box if it wasn’t scooped after every, um, bathroom break. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I rolled behind a pile of baskets filled with rotting chickens now, and to my left, upon the littered curb, a woman and man crouched behind an upturned delivery cart. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s the problem with the wasting disease. The whole forest was littered with carcasses that year, just rotting away. We couldn’t do anything with them. Their meat and hides were useless.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The outside of the Berg was littered with various boxy protrusions and handles for maintenance workers. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “I didn’t come up to say that. Clover’s had her litter. All good, healthy kittens. Three bucks and three does, she says.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes, the ground was littered with dead bronze-beaked pigeons, and the survivors were a distant trail of smoke on the horizon. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Clumps of rotting, smelly seaweed littered the beach that the tourists were going to use. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z As always, the plaza area was littered with a thousand fragments of recently torn-up parking tickets that looked like muddy stars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sleeper cab, where the bunks were, was musty and dark as a cave, littered with bags of Doritos and trail mix. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She crouched down by the seats, but the man came in and shooed her out, then picked up a piece of litter that the woman holding the baby had dropped and got out himself. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It slid easily into the wood, peeling off the smallest slivers which fell in a pleasant litter around him. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Dog Town, beside the ship, was a noisy center of activity in the middle of a frozen sea, littered with seal bones and dog droppings. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In the daytime their crisp, incinerated corpses littered the floor and windowsills, and until Kochu Maria swept them away in her plastic dustpan, the air smelled of Something Burning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One hungry heron was seen chowing down a litter of feral kittens. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Several windows are cracked or missing altogether, and broken whiskey bottles litter the floor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She was practicing her role as the cute, bouncy pup in the litter and asked yet again, “Delphine, what do we call her?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The trail was steeper, the steps more worn, and here and there littered with pebbles and broken stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In my dorm the hallways were littered with shoe boxes and coat hangers, doors ajar, everything dark and quiet as the grave. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with rotten fruit and corn silk, their fermented scent lacing the more pleasant aromas of sizzling sausages and beer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I looked around at all the scraps of comic strips littering the bed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Around the corner of the front counter, a skinny, unsmiling lad looked up from a littered table and nodded, meeting my eyes only glancingly, then looking away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved to the city to look for work because their land is littered with landmines. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was calling from his office; Rick saw the familiar desk, the litter of documents and papers and kipple. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And so for the first few months, four- year-old Gogol plays on an uneven, dirt-covered yard littered with stones and sticks, soiling his sneakers, leaving footprints in his path. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, pick of the litter. We all heard him. Why?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Old jeans littered the floor and shirts hung lopsided from hangers. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs — the litters were small and the young survived only a few days. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They placed me on a carrying litter they had made of thick branches — ” “Who were they?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was aware of the fact that our history was littered with the white man’s broken promises. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no doubt in his mind that the most efficient way to rear a large family would be to have one huge litter and get the whole business over with at one time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z "It just so happens, my sow gave birth to a litter of piglets yesterday," she said. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He remembered the images he’d seen in his dream—the camp in ruins, littered with bodies; Octavian standing at the volleyball pit, casually talking in Gaea’s voice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Peeping over the edge, they saw Vilthuril and her litter of four lying in the sun. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z By the litter walk eight guards armed with “foray guns,” also relics of a more barbaric past but not empty ones, being loaded with pellets of soft iron. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The tables at Sunny- sides are littered with strips of soggy paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s a Gurdyroot,” she said, stuffing the cat litter and the toadstool back into her bag. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The shaded streets of his neighborhood are littered with sparkling fountains and bow-backed Scholar slaves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She was skimming the surface of the world again, but now that surface was shattered, littered with debris. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z How can it matter if I leave one little tap running, one little light burning, one little piece of litter on the road? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then the azaleas began to bloom, a garish display of pink, the rainy days leaving the flowers littering the ground. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He remembered his dream about Camp Half-Blood in ruins, Greek and Roman bodies littering the fields. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Though the cubs grow to become larger than their caregiver, and far more dangerous, they never give their mother trouble and she never loses her placid behaviour or her sense of authority over her litter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And inside the classrooms, bullet casings littered the floors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Here and there a fire, forgotten in the last rush, lingered and in a sudden access of strength fed upon the dry bones of some littered shack. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But evidently the bearers had a task to do, for they gathered themselves and moved farther along the terrace, ignoring the cries and mumbles from inside the litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Empty beer cans and whiskey bottles and a few half-eaten tins of Vienna sausages littered the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They stared out with empty eyes, and all around the ground was littered with tiny bones. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael watched a half-dozen navy corpsmen busily packing medical field kits and stacking ambulatory litters. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The shore was littered with driftwood, new and old, tossed up and scattered by the tornado. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar report came from another, who said that out of 37 litters that might have numbered as many as 250 young, only 31 little pigs survived. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ji-yun and I were enchanted by the pearls and gold sequins littering the floor. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She even let her mother pick her platform: Beautifying America, because there was nothing controversial about cleaning up litter, nothing that would make the country uncomfortable. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The windows are shuttered tight and the square of front yard is littered with broken pottery and soiled flags. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass is littered with tennis racquets and drink bottles, food wrappers and beach towels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Although we killed the Indians who held the litter, others at once took their places and held it aloft, and in this manner we spent a long time in overcoming and killing Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As my eyes adjusted to the dim I saw dirty dishes, apple cores and soup cans littering almost every conceivable surface. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They'd hacked branches off trees to make a litter for him, but it was slow, hard work carrying him along, and he whimpered every time they jounced him "We have to yield," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Ghost, already larger than his litter mates, smelled, her, gave her ear a careful nip, and settled back down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I thought: If that puny-looking thing is the best one, Miss Prissy must have had a sorry litter of pups. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran down corridors littered with bones, past rooms foil of sheepskin rugs and life-size cement sheep that I recognized as the work of Medusa. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Dub had mowed the yard that morning, and clippings still littered the concrete carport. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The guards kissed their fingertips and bowed deeply from the waist as the eight footmen carried the litter these last few paces of the journey. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The yard was littered with abandoned car parts, tires, broken pieces of furniture, and other detritus. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The same morning the man set to work to dig out the doe and her growing litter. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was almost full dark, but the moon-god Thoth’s heavenly barque, which revealed its high-prowed boat shape clearly these nights of its waning, was beginning to shed a gentle radiance over the littered pavement. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Some woman from her work had a litter of kittens she was trying to get rid of, and my mom ended up with two. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And there are photos of them doing stuff in the world: cleaning the litter in Carkeek Park, volunteering in a soup kitchen, marching with picket signs at the capitol building in Olympia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The last mouse born to his parents and the only one of his litter to be born alive. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Having spoken, he returned to the litter and went inside. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The medics, jammed between litters of critically injured men, stood at attention in front of the lieutenant. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It was littered with papers and pens and pencils; but Bilbo was sitting in a chair before a small bright fire. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with papers and broken bottles and trampled hamburgers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Fresh rose cuttings littered the walkway, the remnants of the ghost’s nighttime gardening. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Technically, flying paper airplanes from here is littering. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z This was a difficult feat considering that the floor was littered with books and half-empty chai mugs. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The streets became littered with bodies, glass, and crumpled chunks of metal. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We shuffle into vacated seats as the minibus continues over a road pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with wrecked vehicles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The common room was lit with the glow of the dying fire, still littered with the debris from the party. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I read a feed littered with my name. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The interior was dark and leaky, with a mud floor like chocolate pudding, a cramped and filthy sleeping platform, and scraps of wet litter everywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These were the bucks of Clover’s litter and a likely lot they looked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo scanned the workshop, now littered with smoking pieces of broken spheres. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her home was small and littered with books she didn’t understand. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They used such a litter for the slow journey to graveside. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Somewhere die gold cloaks found a litter, but the trip back to the castle was a blur of agony, and Ned lost con-sciousness more than once. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They preferred palanquins, litters, and sedan chairs, borne upon the shoulders of their slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He sat looking down at his bloody leg, feeling the gentle wind, the heat from the south, seeing Kilrain dead on a litter, no more the steady presence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The courtyards were littered with uprooted trees, broken bits of walls, and dead chickens. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “You two here will be litter team A.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The furniture was worn, the carpet faded, and the wide front porch was littered with sneakers, sandals, and flip-flops. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The emperor’s litter was at the very front. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She crouched down beside the litter pan, the scoop in one hand, a plastic grocery store bag in the other. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z From a litter of lipstick kisses, Claudia had plucked a free ride. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with flattened soda cans and fast-food wrappers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he returned to his apartment to finish the job of cleaning up the litter left from the kickoff rally. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The infield was littered with bottles and trash. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z One of the groups in our class discovered that the cat they’d been dissecting had died pregnant; they’d found a litter of unborn kittens in her uterus. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Every time the train pulled away, we left a litter of corpses in our wake. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z When litters were kindled, he kept an eye on their growth, picked out the strongest youngsters for the Owsla and trained them himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the last attack, the bodies that had littered the ground, and then...a conversation with Kamau. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They lived in the same one-roomed hut with their families, few chickens, litter of pigs, or with a cow possibly called Crumbocke—most dreadful and insanitary! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His rifle, its butt pressed tirelessly against his face, was buried to the hilt in leaf litter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her freckled nose scrunched in disgust at the litter scattered in front of Fig’s bathroom box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He took off his hat and laid it on the mantel, and then he stood tapping his foot on the littered hearth, facing them. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After the litter, female slaves in beautiful clothes, and then a few grooms, runners, pages, and the like. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Poppy had several litters for my mother’s business, but the puppies and the other breeding dogs live with Mummy’s partner at a farm outside Burlington. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I suppose that’s part of why Perrington is so infatuated. She arrived here in a litter bigger than most peasant huts; it was carried here from her home. A distance of almost two hundred miles.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Behind him, the door to a bedroom stood open, and in that room a litter of machinery and steel tools was strewn upon a desk-top. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as sorry for him as I had felt for a litter of helpless pigs bom in our backyard sty in Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Tables and chairs are turned upside down, and the floor is littered with cracked frames. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Clary’s desk was a rickety table, littered with scraps of paper, all of them covered with notes in her neat, round handwriting. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The stoop is littered with butts, even though there’s one of those hourglass-shaped smokeless ashtrays there. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It was like the world’s biggest pan of kitty litter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In spring, ripened fruit littered the ground to make walking a hazardous, slippery adventure. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could tell from the yards, which were infested with weeds and litter and looked like tufts of greasy hair on an old man too weak to comb it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When I look up to check again, the numbers fade into dancing cats singing about kitty litter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Needles still litter the house, but I’ve managed to put away the decorations and store them back in the closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The litter was suspended between eight mammoth draft horses on heavy leather straps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z More guards followed, carrying a litter behind them—the sort of thing an ancient king might be carried around on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z When she bent down to pick up her litter, she spotted the maroon edge of a book jammed between the can and the wall. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There are candy wrappers littered around her on the bed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Ghost, already larger than his litter mates, smelled, her, gave her ear a careful nip, and settled back down. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Finally, a dog slinked by, trailed by a litter of yapping puppies. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Beyond the little house, to the right, the expanse of fields was pale with littered husks and broken stalks. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When I turned and walked away through the litter and broken glass of the empty, middle-of-the-night street, they were following close behind. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was nearly dusk and a March stillness had seized everything—the trees, the rotting deadwood, the leafless vine maple, the stones littering the ground. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The smell from the litter box wafts out of the hall closet and seems to taunt me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z They littered the bedspread and clattered to the floor. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I stumbled into Mrs. Epler’s stall and sat in the stray white feathers that littered the ground. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was littered with wires, nails and the guts of several disassembled bronze machines. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Inside, cigarette butts and food wrappers littered the floors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Oh, Thlayli! Shall we mate with whom we choose and dig our own burrows and bear our litters alive?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was littered with empty plastic bags and coffee cups. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Closer to the towers, corpses littered the ground on every side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They passed a cemetery littered with rock-piled graves and ragged shaheed flags fluttering in the breeze. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The road was scarcely wide enough for two riders to pass abreast, its surface cut by tiny streams and littered with stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The archers drew and released, and the road was littered with arrows that flew in a trained arc. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The truck was split open and cartons of cigarettes littered the wet road. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Broken lanterns and glass shards litter the floor of this room, and paint is peeling from every wall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They were brought out on litters, “seated on their thrones and surrounded by pages and women with flywhisks in their hands, who ministered to them with as much respect as if they had been alive.’ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One, lined with fur torn from her own belly, contained Clover and the pile of grass and leaves, covered over with earth, in which her newborn litter were sleeping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite their small size they play an important part in breaking down the residues of plants, aiding in the slow conversion of the litter of the forest floor to soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After breakfast, while Dicey gathered together their litter and packed it into the paper bag to be discarded at the first trash can they saw, the little ones explored the graveyard. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The Fat Lady had vanished from her portrait, which had been slashed so viciously that strips of canvas littered the floor; great chunks of it had been torn away completely. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z To Joseph’s shock, it was now a huge vacant space littered with rubbish and a few piles of leftover packing crates. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When Mum Olga had me clean out the root cellar, and I found a tabby with her litter of kittens, Char learned of my delight. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The table was littered with disordered papers; rain was beating on the windows. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Before long his property was littered with busted vehicles and scrap metal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She drops to a crouch, papers littering the floor all around her, and I think, She’s crying, but I’m not sure why, since I don’t see her shoulders shake. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I sat back down on the littered floor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He rarely left with the gossip magazines; copies of Vintage People and Prime People and Lagos Life littered Aunty Uju’s house, with their blurry photos and garish headlines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At Lupita’s nod, he let go and both of them walked hurriedly down the street and around the corner into a littered alley. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z His head was pounding, and even the gentle swaying of the litter was enough to make his gorge rise in his throat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I saw sharks' teeth and whales' earbones littered about down there like gravestones. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The trip to the kitchen and back could not have taken more than two minutes, yet in that time I tramped through swampy cemeteries, climbed over dusty gravestones and eluded litters of night-black cats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We crushed the many empty liquor bottles littering the yard into “diamonds.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama put some cane chairs out there along with a crate with an ashtray so they’d stop littering her yard. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I organized the construction of a litter out of branches, and we bore the great warrior home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The voices were singing a psalm and coming closer, and then she saw a procession of angels carrying a litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Stars littering an endless Bakersfield sky begin to dim. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Lawrence listened soberly, his eyes wandering over the magnets, Tesla coils, and vacuum tubes littering the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Bodies littered the clearing now, impaled darts sticking up toward the sky like a miniature forest. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Little did he know that he would shortly be suffering yet another emotional blow in a life already littered with personal loss. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Out in the fields the dead lay everywhere in the litter of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Flower petals and leaves were littered across her naked body, and her eyes were closed in the gentlest way. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Without pausing to reply, he dashed up to the loft—the scene of the disaster—and shoved Mouschi, who was squatting beside her soggy litter box, back to the right place. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Eight men in official patterned clothes moved about a litter, a structure with a wooden base and ceiling surrounded by beautiful hanging cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I couldn’t hear the response from inside the litter, but I saw the footman making a jagged gesture down his right cheek and knew he was describing me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The floor of the passage was littered with the bones of birds and beasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He tried to wrench free, then he turned and fell to scrabbling on the littered table behind him. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, come along with me. I’m just going back along this run for Nildro-hain. We haven’t got a litter at present, you see, so she’ll come out with the rest of us.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanky, whose ma was Pinky, had give birth to a litter of six pups and they all lived. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with broken rocks and splintered wood and pulverized shrubs. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When we arrived at the fairgrounds, the lot was already littered with beat-up-looking VWs and box trucks and old station wagons. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “He has sores in his mouth. His skin condition, I would say, comes from a combination of dirt and an allergic reaction to chicken litter.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some toss out crushed fast-food bags and half-filled drink cups just to give us a little more litter to pick up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The litter's curtains shielded him from that, and besides gave him leisure to think. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z You splashed one another for a while, ignoring the litter that floated by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Suitcases lay here and there, opened, their contents half spilled onto the littered floor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Crude litters had been patched together for four of the men who could not walk; the fifth was carried by his son, upon his back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As her litter passed beneath the stolen monuments, she went from sunlight to shadow and back again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s a public beach on the Puget Sound waterfront, with concrete trails and grassy picnic areas, huge stretches of sand littered with driftwood logs and chipped seashells. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The windows were blown outward, glass littering the grass in front of the house, nothing left of the door but a few charred scraps swinging on their hinges in the breeze. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The ground is littered with torn food packages, babies’ diapers, empty water bottles and spent cigarettes, dirty tissues, plastic bags. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z His newest wife, a pale frail girl of sixteen years, walked beside his litter when they carried him in. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Shrimp and crab shells were littered around the floor of the small cave. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He woke alone, and found the litter halted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We rounded the corner of the admin building, and I was surprised to see the leaves from the old elm littering the walkway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Shattered crockery litters the foyer—impossible to be noiseless as he enters. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This is the natural job of a doe making a home for her litter before they are born, and then her buck helps her. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Torn pieces of paper litter the floor, and I’m bending to pick one up when the lights shut off. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And so it might have been, if a certain cliff-ghast, busy feasting on a half-dead warrior, had not looked up just as a random searchlight caught the side of the crystal litter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The crater was littered with broken wooden furniture, shattered china plates, some half-melted pewter goblets, and burning linen napkins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Unable at first to speak, they stood gazing mournfully at the litter of fallen stone. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She was the smallest of the litter, the prettiest, the most gentle and trusting. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It’s the prettiest building in a neighborhood surrounded by run-down apartment buildings and scattered litter in the streets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The roads in this downriver neighborhood were full of potholes, the curbs choked with weeds and litter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The world, she knew in her madness, was littered with shiny bits and precious pieces. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The sky was littered with an infinite number of stars. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Now there were merely ruins littered with the bodies of the dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Finally they called for a litter and carried him off to his tent, dazed and unmoving. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Ever’ six weeks or so,” George continued, “them does would throw a litter so we’d have plenty rabbits to eat an’ to sell. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z With a huff, Emily ripped the page from her notebook, crumpled it, and dropped it with the other failed attempts littering the cab of the moving van. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She dropped the clumps of litter into the bag and jokingly flicked the empty scoop at him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s a disgrace,” agrees the caustic, somewhat original, and entirely imposing lady who presides over this litter. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The kitchen floor is littered with boxes containing our dishes and pots, but the tile counters and cabinets smell of Windex and bleach. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She always tried not to step on the spiky plants that grew along the path, but their thorns littered the ground everywhere. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The glebe was littered with mangled fuselages and blackened wings. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He went on: “There was, at that time, little attempt at cleanliness. The yard was littered with debris.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The litter was as slow as it was comfortable, however, and the dwarf soon found himself itching with impatience. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The town had been abandoned years ago but they walked the littered streets carefully, the boy holding on to his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The footman approached the litter and spoke with his eyes averted to the ground. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Fern,” said Mr. Arable, “I know more about raising a litter of pigs than you do. A weakling makes trouble. Now run along!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Rusted pieces of machinery and torn inner tubes still littered the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When I went inside, there was the new milliner, seated at a table littered with feathers, bird wings, satin bows, stiff tape, bolts of velvet, linen, silk, and so on, and several life-size dummy heads. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Late one evening, while lying on a blanket in the garage, Duchess gave birth to a litter of slick, potato-size puppies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Feathers litter the floor under his cage, and he refuses to return to it even after a generous forty-five minutes of head time. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Cigarette butts littered the floor—I thought about poor Candy’s arm and shivered—but that wasn’t what made me pull up in shock. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The wails and screams that escaped from his tiny mouth sounded like those of a dying litter of meerkats. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The hallway floor was littered with Shoshana’s toys, all bright plastic things with scattered parts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Books, scrolls and manuscripts littered the small room. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Just outside the beech hanger, Hyzenthlay’s litter of four young rabbits were playing in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gears, springs, levers, and rods were littered around it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sawdust, nails, food wrappers and cigarette butts, Playboy magazines from the 1970s littered the floor; the many-paned windows were furry with frost and grime. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Now, all that confronted me were its shadows—the swarming crowds of people, the trash littering the walkways, the hollow spaces. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I helped Audrey clean the rest of the litter on the floor, wishing it were just as easy to wipe away the mess we were making of our friendship with Jenna. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “She doesn’t have a litter box in her room?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bits of litter chewed up by the mowers lay scattered on the grass. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Splintered matches littered the ground around him, but he looked as though he was having the time of his life. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The sides of the road were littered with the dead bodies of Jews who had marched this way before us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She had come to Baelor’s Sept a queen, riding in a litter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the middle of the room stood a big square table littered with playing cards, and around it were grouped boxes for the players to sit on. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to sit down on the dirty, littered ground right now and cry until I can’t cry anymore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Where it stood was a wooden bench, and a litter basket. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Large tree branches had fallen and a clutter of leaves and roof tiles and dust and dirt littered the ground. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z At first I can’t make out what the shapes are—they seem jumbled, littered in random patterns under his busy hand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There’s a line of plush anime characters on the dashboard, and the floor is always littered with papers and empty Coke bottles. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The gatehouse square was littered with the wounded, but he saw lines of horses as well, not all of them hurt, and sellswords and gold cloaks enough to form a strong column. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Stretchers—also called litters—were brought in at a run from ambulances and truck beds. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He went to the end of the platform, kicking aside the litter the cleaning robots hadn’t got to yet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Hours later, however, we haven’t found one meteorite, not one piece of sky litter, but I so don’t care. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Immediately, the children piled up against her like a litter of puppies and did the same. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The streets and sidewalks lie littered with white paper. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Yellow leaves were falling everywhere, littering the ground like a carpet rolled out for the approaching footsteps of the end of time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They carried him in the litter, mounted on poles resting on their shoulders, so he wouldn’t tire on his travels. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Bronn was waiting by the gate with his litter and an escort of mounted Black Ears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A chopping board lay on the counter next to him, littered with onion skins, chili ends, and squeezed limes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z After an hour, the ground all around the table would be littered with piles of durian husks, stinking like a dying mongoose. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Years later, when a chess collector finally took possession of the littered set and cleaned it up, Bobby’s reaction was typically indignant: “You’ve ruined it!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They were stacked high on the litter—half a dozen wide, a dozen deep, a dozen long. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z They passed through crude stone chambers littered with bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I wade through a litter of discarded wrappings, broken glass, and bones to where I know I will find Haymitch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z "It was a small litter, only two live pups. She'll have milk enough." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The compound was littered with moons, one in each mud puddle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Daisy Mae had kittens right off, a pretty litter quickly snapped up by the neighbors. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He must have been from a late litter, for he was not very big, and certainly not well fed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Limp bodies littered the beach—more captives released from the hull and decks of the Maafa. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Even Clover and Haystack found that they could manage pretty well and boasted that they would bear the warren’s first litters in burrows that they had dug for themselves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I slide my legs off the bed and watch her gather her things and pick up candy litter. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The floor was littered with blackened paper crisps from the pages of his half-burned books. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Three litters born in autumn—have you ever heard of such a thing before? Frith didn’t mean rabbits to mate in the high summer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Roz watched the otters go, but her eyes lingered on the sparkling objects that littered the shore. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He had ripped open the feather mattress in search of valuables, littering the floor with mounds of horsehair and goose down. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Gran’s secret to no signs of feline life—no evidence of cat hair or litter—could earn her a fortune. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But instead of a king, this litter carried books. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Dany had freed the slaves, yet palanquins, litters, and sedan chairs still choked the I streets as before, and none of them floated magically through the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Paper remade from wilted, dirty, hopeless litter that had been rescued, scrubbed clean, and reshaped. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The road was littered with debris and it was work to get the cart through. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I stepped into the store and was greeted by the rank smell of cat litter and cooked cold-cut meat. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I could see a group of kids milling about in the glass and trash and charred wood that littered the streets. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Everything from silk robes to chopsticks to packages of hand laundry littered the shelves and chairs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Barrels and boxes littered the area, and dozens of men ran around shouting at one another and clapping one another on the back. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The place is littered with empty bottles, pizza boxes, dirty laundry, and old magazines. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The snow’s red and littered with undersized body parts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Blake glanced into his old room and saw my stuffed animals littering the bed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I’ll check on the first floor, and Emma can try the basement. She needs to go back down there to throw away the kitty litter she scooped, anyway.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Paper balls littered the floor, so many that the door swept a bunch of them to the side of the room. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She surveys the mess of toys littered all over the patio, poking some game pieces with her painted toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z When he reached the first rocks that lay littered about the bottom of the hill, he stopped and listened to the sounds which were carried on the wind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It was too early for them to have fruit, so Nhamo paid them little attention until she noticed a stealthy noise in the dry, brittle leaves that littered the ground. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sodden fragments littered the school yard, with only a few torn and illegible remnants dangling on the ropes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of delicate bones litter the clearing around the vehicle, scattered among thousands of porcupine quills: the remains of the small game that made up the bulk of McCandless’s diet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Hephaestus was always tossing broken parts out of his godly workshop and littering the earth with scrap metal, but what were the chances some of it would hit Ogygia? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm Mildred stopped screaming as quickly as she started. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of foam and cardboard litter the floor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z We each grab our own bags and start snagging litter so fast you’d think we’d just guzzled a gallon of coffee. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Just before she reaches the circle of supplies that have been littered around the pyramid, she stops, searches the ground, and carefully places her feet on a spot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s too much litter, and too many people look angry. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When they returned, they broke a hole in the side of Aunt Chipo’s hut—for the dead must not leave by the same door as the living—and carried Vatetes body out on a litter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In another commercial neighborhood, gangs ransacked every grocery store, littering the streets with squashed fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar and turning the neighborhood into what resembled one giant dump. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Four,” called a monstrously fat Yunkishman from die litter where he sprawled like a leviathan. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The neighborhood is gray and dingy and littered with trash, but all the row homes are occupied and therefore not condemned, so our blocks look pretty healthy compared to most around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Shoes are worn inside, trays of cat litter are placed in the kitchens, dogs bark and jump when Ashima and Ashoke ring the bell. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I can clearly see the trail Mango left behind him when he went back and forth between the litter box and the foot of my bed. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The trail was littered with fallen branches and ripped apart by huge holes caused by the earthquake. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z The water looks odd under the beam, a colorless broth littered with a variety of objects: a bright orange; a man’s fedora with a brim of excrement; bits of paper like torn letters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lord Gyles, more grey of face than ever, stammered out a tale of seeing the High Septon spilled from his litter, screeching prayers as the crowd swept over him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mariam saw small mounds of flyblown garbage littering the street here and there. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She set them on the small desk littered with papers. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z On 5 March Galileo announced his intention to leave for Rome; on the nineteenth he was still impatiently waiting for a litter to carry him and complaining that he had a deadline to meet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The promenade wasn’t much to look at, a wide, crumbling paved area, dotted with litter, evidence of the island’s half-hearted attempts to attract tourists. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I joined the Squires Club, and our main duties were to keep order in the lunch line and stop students from littering. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s never been just "Good boy, Harold,” or "Use the litter box, Chester” at our house. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the huge pile of used tissues that littered the coffee table, and how Butternut stayed near me the whole day, like he knew I was sick and needed a friend. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means “Little Thousand”—i.e., the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, “the runt.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They left the cart in the lot and walked the littered aisles. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She looked back at the bed, which was littered with books she wasn’t going to read tonight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z So what we Underwoods do is pick up litter wherever we see it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I wanted to study the litter for evidence of the emperor within. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z In other years on New Year’s morning the streets would be littered with shreds of colored firecracker paper. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, there’s one you’ve never seen before!” said the Match-Man proudly, pointing to a painting of a mountain covered with snow and its slopes simply littered with grasshoppers sitting on gigantic roses. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Warehouses and work yards littered with battered and rusting equipment were mixed in with shotgun houses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A lard an his cushioned chair might be crippled—the Walders said their grandfatfacr was so feeble he had to be carried everywhere in a litter—but not a knight on his destrier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Apparently, Bodega didn’t litter in his own house. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It was littered with belongings: brass beds, chairs, kitchen tables, pots and pans, cribs, and piles of clothes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom will be so grateful when we rescue her, she’s not going to get mad about a little kitty litter, Emma thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The angels carrying the litter left the Clouded Mountain and flew south. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A Brazen Beast in a boar mask had offered the litter bearer a skin of water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The streets are so clean because the fine for littering is a ton of money and a flogging. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The way is littered with hundreds of dead soldiers, their unburied bodies swollen by death and sometimes stripped bare by scavengers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The bearers had stopped and the litter was being lowered. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Dirty clothes littered the floor, and I could see the butt of a handgun poking out from under a pile of stained T-shirts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Lennie went behind the tree and brought out a litter of dried leaves and twigs. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z This is why, on the afternoon of Christmas Eve, my bed is littered with all sorts of craft project supplies: felt, glitter, glue, scissors, hole punch, sequins, and stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z In the autumn the four sows had all littered about simultaneously, producing thirty-one young pigs between them. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The tide brought more to us, littering the wrack line with chunks of it that we gathered like shell seekers who knew too much about frostbite. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z They call it littering when you carelessly drop things. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the first hill, they saw an amazing sight: Abandoned motorcycles, trucks, and even guns littered the road, as though the Germans had dropped everything and started running. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Bobby was conceived in the afternoon, on a sofa littered with rubber teething toys, after the friend learned that a London pharmaceutical company had hired him, while Ronny cried to be freed from his playpen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She must have been a runt in the litter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The area around the doors was littered with black rubble. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “You’ll soon be comfortable, and if we must move, we can make a litter from branches and sling it between our horses.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z One of the first things you learn at Camp Half-Blood is: Don’t litter. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the circle of folding chairs was a beach littered with broken blue-glass bottles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Here were the ropes and blocks I had expected, two or three sails, fenders, a small punt, pots of paints, all the litter and junk that goes with the using of boats. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The floor was littered with blankets and pillows and shoes and board games and plastic bowls with popcorn kernels and pretzel crumbs in the bottom. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Coulter was close enough to see the being in the litter: an angel, she thought, and indescribably aged. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Bushes had grown up all around, the yards were littered, and the decrepit houses now all looked the same to her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The railroad tracks are littered with broken dolls, old tires, dead dogs, and worn shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Sir Urre was carried there in a litter and laid on a cushion of gold cloth, for the attempt at healing to begin. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Small bundles seemed to litter the lawn at the front of the castle. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Overcrowding was becoming a grave problem, and this despite the fact that many of the does were re-absorbing their litters before birth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the command to continue, and the litter rocked like a ship on a rough sea as the Burned Men cleared a path. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Paper cups, crumpled napkins, and empty bottles of soda littered the yard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z "You are the blood of the dragon, little one," she whispered as her litter swayed along, curtains drawn tight. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The floor was littered with books and papers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The yards were dry and overgrown, and lighted reindeer and inflated snow globes from Christmas still littered some of the front lawns. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Wrinkled, withered petals littered the floor, and all the huge bouquets were now just moldy stalks sagging in their vases. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Toys, bald tires, and beer bottles with peeling labels littered unkempt front lawns. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I walk closer to the water, the thin stretch of beach that is littered with crumpled seaweed and broken seashells. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Pretty soon the vacant lot was littered with blown sneakers and broken hearts. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not belong here, in the torchlit hall littered with cups and harps, the debris of celebrations he had taken no part in. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A havoc of scrap and rubble littered the alley. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Indians carrying the litter, and those escorting Atahuallpa, never abandoned him: all died around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A cracked mirror tilts over a sink littered with dead roaches crocheted together with cobwebs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind this group eight sturdy fellows bear the royal litter, rough with yellow sapphires, in which no king has ridden for centuries, a ceremonial relic of the very-long-ago. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Most important, they didn’t present their owners with a litter of new robots every six months. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z If Hyzenthlay had had a second litter she would by this time have left them to look after themselves. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a world where green bills littered the highway like empty soda cans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A door on the ground floor opened up to a skinny backyard, where a mommy cat and her new litter of kittens made their home under a hydrangea bush. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Blow after blow she lands, until tiny flakes of bone litter the bed and mingle with chipped bits of her once-beautiful goose. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Already men were labouring to clear a way through the jetsam of battle; and now out from the Gate came some bearing litters. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But now the village was unswept, the water polluted, and the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he went into his little office, pushed a litter of brake linings and fan belts and catalogues aside, and from underneath dug out a telephone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The wine, the food, the sun, the sway of the litter, the buzzing of the flies, all conspired to make Tyrion sleepy. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One shows the Machinery Building soiled by smoke and litter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "We'll need to make a litter to carry him," said Osha. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I shook my favorite shirt, causing kitty litter and potato chip crumbs to shoot off in multiple directions. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Liddy got a Social Security card with this name, club membership cards, and other “pocket litter”—ordinary things like torn train tickets and scribbled notes that make a wallet look real. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Wearing cotton armor and wooden helmets, brandishing lances, hatchets, and maces, and carrying great painted litters with effigies of their gods, the two militias marched on Mutal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From the looks of the grounds, tom and muddy and littered with bits of dinted armor and broken lances, they had been at it for a day or more, but now the end was near. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then she let us out through the back door, into a lonely alley littered with plastic bags and broken bottles. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Anyway, go wash your hands, for supper. And Papa, put away this litter of paints, because you won’t be needing them for quite a while.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He had her sit behind his crowded workbench, the top of which was littered with old soles and scraps of leftover leather. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There were no old well-worn chairs, no tables littered with magazines and papers, seldom if ever read, but left there from long custom, because Maxim’s father, or even his grandfather perhaps, had wished it so. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I could ride a snail and make a better pace than this litter of yours. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A mixture of cat food, the outdoors, and litter. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Garbage littered a front lawn enclosed by a rusted chain-link fence. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They found Queen Cersei in the council chambers, seated at the head of a long table littered with papers, candles, and blocks of sealing wax. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I went back to school in the fall: a dry, gorgeous September, you wouldn’t believe how beautiful the trees were that year: clear skies, littered groves, people whispering whenever I walked by. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I look at the empty room, dirt and dust I would have sworn didn’t exist littering the bare floor, then walk through every inch of the echoing apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He saw that the floor of the dungeon was littered with tufts of fur, knots of red thread, and the skeletons of mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z British planes fly over Germany, littering cities with leaflets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Nothing littered the floor, not even one dirty sock. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It became so bad, Principal Jenkins said he would give detention to any student caught littering on school grounds. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He and the two harpy drivers swerved away, weaving around clusters of idle cars that littered the road. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Books, empty wine bottles, dirty underwear and cigarette butts littered the floor. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They found some sails, some nails, buckets erf tar gone hard, and a mother cat with a litter of new-born kittens. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One hot afternoon, the guards had just finished off a particularly ripe, particularly smelly durian, and more husks littered the pavilion ground than usual. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z |
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