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"Pile" in a Sentence (31 examples)
They found out truth while examining a pile of relevant documents.
I haven't had time to do the dishes for two days; they are in a pile in the kitchen sink.
I reached into the pile and felt soft fabric.
Divide the pile of documents equally, and take them one by one to either side of the room.
Looking at the pile of laundry, I sighed.
Examine the pile of documents in advance.
I ran after him with a pile of papers that he'd left behind.
His assistant examined the pile of papers over and over again.
There was a neat pile of books in the corner of the room.
I always buy the English-language books I come across at bookstores. But since I never read them, all they do is pile up.
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I climbed through, and, standing on a pile of stones, lifted and dragged Cleopatra after me.
When we were looking for a new housemate, we put the nice woman on the "maybe" pile, and the annoying guy on the "no" pile
a pile of shot
Jove with a Nod, comply'd with her Deſire; / Around the Body flam'd the Funeral Fire; / The Pile decreas'd that lately ſeem'd ſo high, / And Sheets of Smoak roll'd upward to the Sky: [...]
He made a pile from that invention of his.
When they are at work they live most frugally, denying themselves every comfort and luxury till they have made a "pile."
The pile is of a gloomy and massive, rather than of an elegant, style of Gothic architecture; […]
The pile o'erlooked the town and drew the fight.
It was dark when the four-wheeled cab wherein he had brought Avice from the station stood at the entrance to the pile of flats of which Pierston occupied one floor[…]
He [Winston Churchill] was born at Blenheim Palace, that Oxfordshire pile built for his ancestor John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, who also knew a thing or two about warfare.
The word "pile" is used specifically to mean the column of superposed electrodes, such as that of Volta or Zamboni.
And the moment it thumped into the net, Celtic’s march back to the top of the SPL pile also seemed unstoppable.
Watch Harlequins train and you get some idea of why they are back on top of the pile going into Saturday's rerun of last season's grand final against Leicester.
They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.
We piled the camel with our loads.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.
Junk piled on the floor as we searched the attic for the old photograph albums.
I darted from room to room as the see-through bagless dustbin piled high with shocking amounts of icky-poo.
All this time I worked very hard [...] and it is scarce credible what inexpressible labour everything was done with, especially the bringing piles out of the woods and driving them into the ground; for I made them much bigger than I needed to have done.
Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile.
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