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
Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
The soldiers of the Typhoon unit work in a basement filled with heaps of kit and cables, reached via a handmade wooden staircase.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Shares currently fetch just 17-times future earnings for the current fiscal year—cheap for a company with a solid streaming audience and heaps of valuable intellectual property.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
The gold was piled all around me now, and to me it just looked like heaps of shiny straw.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
