pile

Example Sentences

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She said when staff returned after Christmas "piles of stuff was blocking the entrance".

From BBC

But U.S. investors have been focusing on the positive side of things, piling into bets that suggest that they have strong confidence that the economy will keep powering forward.

From The Wall Street Journal

Parts of the walls were blown away, leaving piles of bricks, large concrete slabs and furniture strewn across the floor.

From BBC

A cordon was put in place around the part-demolished building and an excavator machine, sitting on top of a pile of rubble.

From BBC

We got out and stared slack-jawed at the deep pile of gray ash, and the painted number on the curb, 1160, all that was left.

From Los Angeles Times