heap upon
Example Sentences
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Listening to Lana sing for a few moments can feel like hours, which is probably the highest praise anyone’s distracted brain tissue can heap upon a singer in too-fast times.
From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023
But as we can see from the determination in Anne’s step and her utter refusal of the shame that society tries to heap upon her, they are not the end of her story.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2022
The more scorn we heap upon him, the harder he will try to please us.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2015
More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was full of buttons, large and small, dull and bright, white and colored, and these she poured out in a little heap upon the floor.
From Black-Eyed Susan by Phillips, Ethel Calvert
