pile

Example Sentences

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Just silver, sitting there, quietly appreciating while bureaucrats in Beijing shuffle export applications into the “pending” pile.

From MarketWatch

The entrepreneur and fashion brand founder has an enormous pile of the gold-wrapped candies sitting in a bowl on her coffee table, available to her any time she needs a snack.

From MarketWatch

Still, Asian markets have enjoyed a healthy year, with Seoul's Kospi piling on more than 75 percent and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 more than 25 percent -- both having hit records earlier in the year.

From Barron's

But after 11 years - and with the rubbish still piling up - the scheme is being shelved because it "failed to show a tangible result".

From BBC

Influencers and commenters piled on, asking why, if the situation was so dire, no one had been arrested, deported or denaturalized.

From Salon