Example sentences for: heap

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

  • Indian hunters used to dry their buffalo meat and stretch the hides by the creek, and left the bones in a heap.

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

  • 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.

  • The Library of America produced a fat 1,500-page volume of Jefferson some years ago, but Jefferson's writings turned out to be a shapeless heap of private letters and peculiar jottings intermixed with an occasional manifesto of immortal grandeur--and to make your way through them unaided was nearly impossible.

  • Critics call this painfully predictable and clichéd futuristic sci-fi film a "mechanical, violent military-porn fantasy"(Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ): Shane meets Terminator meets Road Warrior . An extremely buff Kurt Russell plays the title soldier of the future who, when decommissioned, is relegated to the horrors of the slag heap planet, where he discovers human emotion and rises to the defense of his fellow outcasts.


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