Example sentences for: pile

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

  • The WP lead reports that in separate meetings Secretary of State Albright privately scolded Israel and Palestinian leaders, telling them she is "sick and tired of hearing you give me a pile full of complaints about the other guy."

  • ...former Sarajevo psychiatrist with his pile of Elvis hair, and Sonja, his sturdy daughter, dressed to the nines in a broad-brimmed hat and stiletto heels.

  • 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).

  • There's a pile of money called the Social Security Trust Fund.

  • All the arguments put forward assume an ideal fit in the original pile and one temperature change, with detailed calculations based thereon: therein, I suggest, lies the rub.


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