piles
Example Sentences
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The show’s minimalism extends to its set by Soutra Gilmour: two oversize piles of luggage on a turntable—conceptually clever even if it may trigger unpleasant memories of long, foot-tapping waits at airport carousels.
Most of this extra time came from having to climb up and over the seaweed piles.
From Science Daily
Masonry, metal girders and piles of sand are everywhere along the pavements.
From Barron's
Markets have been choppy this month after big tech companies projected massive capital expenditures that are increasingly reliant on issuing huge piles of debt.
“The answer,” Mr. Cooper and Ms. Johnson promise, “is in here somewhere”—hidden among piles of arch testimony and macabre illustrations in the style of Charles Addams.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
