Example sentences for: pile

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

  • Also he'd committed the sin of winning a pile of money on tour, $3.

  • A jock makes short work of a pile of Jooky cans.

  • Momentum investors pile into a stock, the narrative goes, and then pile out of it without paying any attention to the fundamentals, so that good buy-and-hold investors get whipsawed for no good reason.

  • 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).

  • They're happy to pile in, whether the stock costs $20 or $200.


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