Example sentences for: piling

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

  • You might expect a painful drama to follow, a piling up of drafts and rejections.

  • The way Matt Damon scrawls breathlessly on a chalkboard in Good Will Hunting --that's the way De Palma makes a thriller, piling on angles, variables, fractions, exponents.

  • Unpaid claims have been piling up in its back offices, and last month the insurance company announced that its third-quarter earnings had fallen significantly because of all the administrative problems.

  • Many of the Balearic Islands are strewn with rocks and boulders, and these early peoples built simple stone houses and cleared fields by piling the stones into dividing walls.

  • The idea, then, is that within five years, B2C e-commerce--that is, what all the investors piling into Amazon.com and eToys are hoping to capitalize on--will be only a small part of the overall e-commerce market, perhaps as small as 10 percent.


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