Example sentences for: pile

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

  • To which Brookhiser adds, "Don't carry a boom box either ." And the embarrassments pile up, one upon the other, and the patriotic reader wilts in his chair, and Washington ends up too ludicrous for words.

  • Of course, the hill the city sits on is a heap of corruption, a pile of lies as high as the Palisades.

  • If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.

  • das Schäfchen im Trockenen haben, Lit. to have brought the sheep into the dry: to have made one's pile

  • Once, after I signed a pile of books at a bookstore, a clerk told me not to leave because there were more copies in back.


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