heaps
Example Sentences
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Chile imports more sulfuric acid than any other country and uses it to leach copper from huge heaps of ore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026
His wife Jean died in 2009 at the age of 62, decades after she was exposed to asbestos when walking past heaps of the material resembling "the white cliffs of Dover" as a child.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
That puts pressure on Nvidia to again post market-busting earnings—and heaps expectation on pretty much every other major player in the AI ecosystem.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
A video he took around 1 p.m. shows bulldozers and other heavy machinery scooping heaps of sediment and moving logs.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025
“Haven’t you noticed there are junk heaps everywhere? Plenty of other places we can work. And other waste mart men.”
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
