piling

Example Sentences

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Piling actual music on top of it is redundant, if not a desecration.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

Piling more students into smaller spaces brings down the cost, but how small is too small?

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Piling pressure on, and forcing penalties, they put Wales where they didn't want to be.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023

Piling on the points, they blew out one opponent after another.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022

Piling twenty-two dimes in the Oxford Mart pay phone, I’d inquired about an editor position at the Harper & Row publishing house on 33rd Street in Manhattan.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett