Refine this word faster
Heap
"Heap" in a Sentence (29 examples)
Fan letters lay in a heap on the desk.
A delicatessen caught fire and burned down, leaving a heap of ashes.
Put the plan on the scrap heap.
The unemployed always wind up at the bottom of the heap.
She left the old newspapers lying in a heap.
She fell in a heap to the floor.
Get rid of that heap of old newspapers.
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand heap.
The wood was kindled, the flames arose, and a mouldering heap of ashes was soon all that remained of Mrs Askew and her fellow martyrs.
Thanks a heap.
Show 19 more sentences
A Heap of Vassals, and Slaues: […] A People that is without Naturall Affection, […] A Nation without Morality, without Letters, Arts, or Sciences
He had plenty of friends, heaps of friends in the parliamentary sense
a heap of earth; a heap of stones
Huge heaps of slain around the body rise.
Every break seemed dangerous and Falcao clearly had the beating of Amorebieta. Others, being forced to stretch a foot behind them to control Arda Turan's 34th-minute cross, might simply have lashed a shot on the turn; Falcao, though, twisted back on to his left foot, leaving Amorebieta in a heap, and thumped in an inevitable finish – his 12th goal in 15 European matches this season.
a vast heap, both of places of scripture and quotations
I have noticed a heap of things in my life.
You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.
My first car was an old heap.
Chuffy: It's on a knife edge at the moment, Bertie. If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.
Thanks a heap!
[W]e went to the play, and Pen was struck all of a heap with Miss Fotheringay … And he’s fallen in love with her—and I’m blessed if he hasn’t proposed to her […]
He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.
Cry a reward, to him who shall first bring News of that vanished Arabian, A full-heap’d helmet of the purest gold.
They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
Chuckaway too no good. Heap water, little chuckaway. Heap sticks, and still little chuckaway.
We are all familiar with the stereotyped broken English which writers of Western stories, comic strips, and similar literature put into the mouths of Indians: 'me heap big chief', 'you like um fire water', and so forth.
Once upon a time, a Scotsman, an Englishman, and an Irishman are captured by the Red Indians […] He approaches the Englishman, pinches the skin of his upper arm, and says, "Hmmm, heap good skin, nice and thick.
See also for "heap"
Next best steps
Mini challenge
Unscramble this word: heap