piles

Example Sentences

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Piles of casings, stripped of their copper, had been crammed outside a basement window.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 29, 2025

Piles of debris are heaped on the parish's roadsides, next to battered buildings, shipping crates turned on their side and crowds of people wading through the destruction.

From BBC • Nov. 2, 2025

Piles of belongings and rotting food covered the bed and the air was thick with flies.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

The closest one is at Rock Piles Beach, about a 13-minute walk from the incident, and an area designated for professional surfers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024

Cutting cane was hard work, but it was nothing like what came next: Piles of freshly cut cane had to be fed into the ever-turning mill wheels, until they were completely crushed.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson