heap up
Example Sentences
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Smith's dynamic concept of wealth jeopardizes a favorite theory of these monopolists: that colonies should be exploited to heap up money to sit in the home country's vaults.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stench is overpowering: garbage and human waste heap up in piles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The essential task for many artists then was to align themselves with the dynamic forces of that world, to heap up raptures to horsepower and the Brooklyn Bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
They fled in confusion to the ships, and the wall they had built to defend them went down like a sand wall children heap up on the shore and then scatter in their play.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
She was the kind of cook who would heap up your plate with such as ham hock, greens, black-eyed peas, fried fish, cabbage, sweet potatoes, grits and gravy, and combread.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
