piles
Example Sentences
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Warner recommends checking outdoor areas carefully before gardening or reaching into brush or firewood piles.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026
Animals were often cooked and eaten, and their bones discarded in waste piles where exposure to heat and weather gradually breaks down genetic material.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Nearly three months on, the building still carries the attack in its bones: insurers picking through debris, piles of glass heaped by the entrance, the auditorium a burnt-out shell.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
Companies could also field questions about whether, or how, they might get refunds on the piles of money they’ve paid in import taxes over the past year.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 22, 2026
Mountainous piles of cages wobbled on the camels behind him.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
