piles
Example Sentences
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“If you’re gardening or working around wood piles or bushes, check the area first,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
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 The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Animals were often cooked and eaten, and their bones discarded in waste piles where exposure to heat and weather gradually breaks down genetic material.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Nearly three months on, the building still carries the attack in its bones: insurers picking through debris, piles of glass heaped by the entrance, the auditorium a burnt-out shell.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
The house and barn were gone, and smoking piles of ash and charred wood were all that remained.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
