piles
Example Sentences
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“Just samples of yarn and piles of graph paper.”
From Literature
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Papers rained down around me like snow as she shifted through the piles on the desk like a hurricane.
From Literature
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Field voles, hedgehogs and other ground‑nesting species rely on dense vegetation, leaf piles and scrub for shelter during the colder months.
From BBC
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
On the other end were the stables and blacksmith, where there were piles and piles of straw.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.