PILE in a Sentence

Learn PILE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
237 example sentences for PILE, such as:
1. This pile of apples vary in size.
2. Place the card face up on the pile.
3. He found it amongst a pile of old books.
4. A sudden wind swept a pile of leaves in.
5. In her apron was a pile of silver tableware.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PILE
pile
 n.  fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
 n.  the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave
Classic Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1  In her large black hands was a tray upon which food smoked, two large yams covered with butter, a pile of buckwheat cakes dripping syrup, and a large slice of ham swimming in gravy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Defiantly, she tossed the ring onto the top of the pile.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Then it was laid gently on the pile of jewelry.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  In her apron was a pile of silver tableware.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  His eyes were bitter as he looked toward the axe and the pile of logs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  She remembered the cold wind that swept the orchard of Tara and Ashley standing by a pile of rails, his eyes looking beyond her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  Because of these delays she arrived at the lumber yard later than she intended and found Hugh and the team drivers sitting on a low pile of lumber waiting for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
8  She went to the lumber yard and bullied Hugh until he hid himself behind a pile of lumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  "Mr. Wilkes could make a pile of money out of the mills some day," said Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
10  She squealed as he leaped on a pile of brush and fired at the rabbit which ran out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  He rubbed her feet, and covered her with the buffalo robe and horse-blankets from the pile on the feed-box.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  The pile of stove-wood grew astonishingly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  Hugh learned that the pile was the hiding-place of Injuns; he went gunning for them while the elders talked of uninteresting things.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
14  The rear of the Bon Ton Store was grim with blistered black-painted iron shutters, under them a pile of once glossy red shirt-boxes, now a pulp from recent rain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
15  In the center of the block, by itself, was the stable for the three horses of the drayman, and beside it a pile of manure.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  The old man stood on a pile of bricks almost as high as a house.
2  There was a pile of clean laundry on her bed.
3  A sudden wind swept a pile of leaves in.
4  Place the card face up on the pile.
5  He put the pile of chips in the center of the table and drew a card.
6  She undressed and put her wet clothes in a neat pile in the corner.
7  There is a pile of rubbish in the corner of the street.
8  The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
9  The little kid stepped right in a pile of dog shit.
10  She closed the magazine and threw it back on the pile.
11  His mother came in carrying a pile of ironing in her arms.
12  He was looking through a pile of old newspaper clippings.
13  He found it amongst a pile of old books.
14  The pile of books toppled over onto the floor.
15  This pile of apples vary in size.