piles
Example Sentences
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From the air, neighborhoods in Cali appeared flattened, with piles of grey rubble replacing entire blocks of homes and apartment buildings.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
She told me that mosquito populations spiked in areas with more human-made mosquito habitat, such as abandoned buildings, unkempt vacant lots, and piles of discarded bulky items.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Left behind is a charred out refrigerator, bed frames, a worn out and graffiti-covered couch, piles of left-behind clothes and the burnt debris of the home that once stood there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Lava domes develop when thick magma slowly rises to the surface and piles up around a volcanic opening rather than flowing easily away.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
He kept giving us more and more goldfish crackers, and then we all put our piles together in the middle of the table and helped each other count them.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
