heaps

Example Sentences

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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

Galthie has a dream team but heaps of pressure, too.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 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

It also heaps green industrial-policy mandates on the rest of the auto supply chain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

And all about, stone, cracked and splintered into countless jagged shards, was scattered far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien