Example sentences for: heap

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

  • In our memory tests with a 300 kilobase (kb) sequence with several thousand features, the memory heap size hovered around 100 Mbytes (MB).

  • I could be wrong about all this, and I don't want to fall into my old buddy H. L. Mencken's simple solutions trap, but that's a heap of money, and I think this one deserves some prompt consideration by the folks at postal HQ!

  • Critics heap scorn on this edited version of an unfinished "fictional memoir" left behind by Hemingway and crucify the writer's children for their now routine desecration of their father's reputation (see the line of furniture, eyeglasses, and shotguns licensed by Hemingway Ltd.).

  • True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.

  • Other ubiquitous calcium compounds include gypsum—calcium sulfate (CaSO4;), which is what sheetrock is made of— and the active binding agent in cement, quicklime— Calcium oxide (CaO), produced by cooking limestone in a lime kiln (the primitive version, a lime rick —compare hay-rick , a variant of haystack —was a heap of earth with the stone and a fire kept going inside it—whence the name of the town in Ireland by which the doggerel verse-form is called as well ).


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