Example sentences for: pile

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

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).

  • “Humans sit on the top of the pile when it comes to relative brain size.”

  • Roberts has left the movie's cozy romantic fantasyland in a pile of jagged shards.

  • Fuji, reputedly originated as a pile of sand left behind by the temple’s construction workers.

  • O'Hara, who is now a sportswriter for the Detroit News , calls the idea that Gore was specially protected in Vietnam "a pile of shit."


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