piles

Example Sentences

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Looking for the piles of pens that once adorned Plath’s grave didn’t help; it is now blanketed in planted flowers.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

They showed videos of their homes before and photos of the piles of rubble after.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

BIRMINGHAM, England—The neighborhood around Harris Hussein’s barbershop in this once thriving industrial city is marked by potholes and strewn with piles of uncollected trash.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

The shops are hard to distinguish among the piles of nylon, polyester and silk, but each owner and seller had a similar story.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

And sure enough there were a few old tire piles rotting slowly in its cracked concrete front yard.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste