piles

Example Sentences

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Hail piles up into ice drifts, growing from pellets to Ping-Pong balls.

From Literature

Inside are piles of file folders, stacked on end, lined up one after another, each one labeled, each one stuffed with paper, some more than others.

From Literature

I was assigned a seat at a bench near the front and given the job of measuring small glass rods and arranging them in piles according to lengths.

From Literature

Mine today is yellow, my last clean one, excavated from the crumpled piles on my wardrobe floor and pale enough that I’d hoped it would go unnoticed.

From Literature

"They're herbivores, so they feed on lots of different vegetation, so you'll often see piles of sticks with the bark chewed off."

From BBC