heaps

Example Sentences

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Chile imports more sulfuric acid than any other country and uses it to leach copper from huge heaps of ore.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Uncollected garbage rotted in heaps, and people cued outside of bakeries for their daily government ration of bread.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

His wife Jean died in 2009 at the age of 62, decades after she was exposed to asbestos when walking past heaps of the material resembling "the white cliffs of Dover" as a child.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

To prepare for the first service since the disaster, the church had to remove towering heaps of mud that had been washed inside.

From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025

There were heaps of things that I could do, little by little.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier