Example sentences for: piles

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

  • Alternative names for this maneuver are bridging or foot and backing . Piles of stones ( cairns or stonemen ) are built on peaks and along cols (a saddle or pass ). A `sharp rock ridge' is an arete , sometimes only passable by going a chaval [ à cheval ], that is, `sitting astride the top as on a horse.

  • According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed "piles of irreplaceable mementos" of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.

  • Using my incredibly sensitive nose, I divided her clothing into three piles of equal stink factor (and threw in the still-spicy undies from the Kmart detergent load).

  • Small colorful boats with piles of yellow nets are waiting to set sail for the next day’s catch.

  • 2: The new British Library--sitting comfortably on enlarged piles.


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