piled

Example Sentences

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On the floor in front of the mural, broken bricks and concrete slabs are piled up.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

"We are absolutely ready," chief intensive care doctor Mar Martin told me on the unit, where large numbers of protective suits, masks and gloves are already piled up for staff.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The question then is where within emerging markets investors should go, especially as many investors have already piled into the emerging markets version of the Magnificent Seven stocks.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

However, Airbnb raised its sales outlook for the year, now calling for growth in the “low to mid-teens,” despite a slowdown in March as cancellations piled up in India and the Asia-Pacific region.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Then I took off my coat and clawed into the hard ground for dirt and piled it up in my coat.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff