piles
Example Sentences
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I was assigned a seat at a bench near the front and given the job of measuring small glass rods and arranging them in piles according to lengths.
From Literature
Mine today is yellow, my last clean one, excavated from the crumpled piles on my wardrobe floor and pale enough that I’d hoped it would go unnoticed.
From Literature
"They're herbivores, so they feed on lots of different vegetation, so you'll often see piles of sticks with the bark chewed off."
From BBC
Warner recommends checking outdoor areas carefully before gardening or reaching into brush or firewood piles.
From Los Angeles Times
It is also squeezing Gulf producers who still depend heavily on oil revenue and forcing difficult decisions to shut down oil fields as crude piles up with nowhere to go.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
