Example sentences for: heap

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

  • The word has several meanings, including “a heap of stuff,” such as a heap of grapes, a heap of mortar, a heap of something, but it also means a lump of sugar.

  • Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.

  • Someone tries to build something, and it collapses in a heap of rubble.

  • 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.

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


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