piles
Example Sentences
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Those piles can alert homeowners to an infestation, but there is a catch: old pellets can remain long after termites have disappeared.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Among the piles of information might be evidence of an affair, or of beliefs they held that you might find offensive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
As the waves bashed the coast this week, boulders smashed into the piles of Mitchell Leib’s Malibu home, plucking them like a “guitar string” and shaking his house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Some witnessed the collapse of the towers, while others searched through piles of debris for human remains.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Stage Two, beginning at the end of 2004, was to replace the student loans and the auto loans and the rest with bigger piles consisting of nothing but U.S. subprime mortgage loans.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
