Example sentences for: pile

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

  • But the Times does add something incendiary to the China pile: The DOJ blocked the release of a classified Pentagon report holding that the satellite help China received under Clinton harmed U.S. national security, by upgrading Chinese missile capabilities.

  • Like the Parliament assemblage in London from which they unashamedly take their architectural inspiration, the Parliament Buildings are an imposing Neo-Gothic pile restored from the ruins left after a devastating fire in 1916 (a current restoration is slated for completion in the year 2000).

  • It was sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.

  • Sure, Rudy Giuliani is drawn to national office like a rat to the flame, if the flame is a trash fire or maybe a pile of old tires.

  • ' Adding to the pile of verbal garbage is balderdash, which reaches back to the late 16th century and originally meant a `hodgepodge of liquors, such as wine mixed with beer,' perfect for washing down a mishmash of pretentious and frivolous blather.


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