Example sentences for: heap

How can you use “heap” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The paper-and-pencil standardized test, that mainstay of meritocracy, soon will join the manual typewriter, vinyl records, and communism on the scrap heap of the 20 th century.

  • It will not do to heap scorn on -athon and denounce athoninators as licentious with language.

  • Why does the image of an Indonesian sewing sneakers for 60 cents an hour evoke so much more feeling than the image of another Indonesian earning the equivalent of 30 cents an hour trying to feed his family on a tiny plot of land--or of a Filipino scavenging on a garbage heap?

  • Even a contented person is often heard to say, Ah'm happy on me own dung heap, with typical Cornish self-mockery.

  • This dog is not just a graduate, the narrator and chyrons tell us; it is the "valedictorian": a clear invitation to the viewer to see Crown Royal, too, as being at the top of the heap.


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