piling

Example Sentences

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Three weekends in a row helping Dad was enough for me, especially given the amount of homework I had piling up.

From Literature

These ridges form when chunks of sea ice are pushed toward the coast, piling up until they become thick enough to rest on the seafloor.

From Science Daily

In addition to daily outages, fuel prices have soared, public transport has become rare and trash is piling up as garbage trucks are no longer running.

From Barron's

To put it another way, if you were to finance the cost by piling £17,000 on to a 25-year mortgage, at a 4.5% interest rate, your extra monthly mortgage payments would be about £100.

From BBC

He can no longer work; bills are still piling up.

From Los Angeles Times