Noun : a pile of papers; a pile of bricks. ,a pile of work. ,the noble pile of Windsor Castle. ,They made a pile on Wall Street. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to pile up the fallen autumn leaves. ,to pile up money; squirrels piling up nuts against the winter. ,He piled the wagon with hay. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : to pile off a train. ,The snow is piling up on the roofs. From Dictionary.com.
And she said they put what she called piles of paper in small boxes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2009] Reference
Thousands and thousand of them in piles on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Life Is War « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
Bedded on new made scones240 and cakes in piles to laniate. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
I agree wih REM ... thick brush piles is where you find them. From Wordnik.com. [Where can i find them cotton tails. I've been out for days trying to find just one but no luck.] Reference
Places them in piles -- meritless and potentially meritorious. From Wordnik.com. [NY Court of Appeals] Reference
Yet still it gets delivered in piles to our station every month. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Life Is War « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference
But everything you are writing about the slush piles is not news to me. From Wordnik.com. [GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap] Reference
Toys, clean clothes in piles, jumparoos and a dog bed cover everything. From Wordnik.com. [Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother] Reference
All the redwood timber had been consumed and lay in piles of glowing embers. From Wordnik.com. [Wolf House Burning: Page III] Reference
The thought of cleaning up his yet undiscovered piles is not a pleasant one. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, it does (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
The real trouble with TBR piles is that they seem to change on a daily basis. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: What SF/F/H Books Are On The Top of Your "To-Be-Read" Pile?] Reference
Please do so soon, because my books can no longer wait in piles all over the house. From Wordnik.com. [Musing Mondays: Keepers « A Progressive on the Prairie] Reference
I've never baited but have seen many deer beside grain piles so my vote goes to corn. From Wordnik.com. [I am going to be using bait for deer.] Reference
And I can put things in piles before putting them up to see how best to organize things. From Wordnik.com. [Organise More Efficiently By Staying Put | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
Rummaging through the piles is like going on an archeological dig, Freed says in the film. From Wordnik.com. [chaos theory] Reference
It consisted of twelve unleavened loaves, said traditionally to have been laid in piles of six each. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The thing that inspires me is the range of books sitting in piles in various locations around the room. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration through horology « Write Anything] Reference
They collapsed in piles near the midcourt line as confetti, some of it light blue, cascaded from the roof. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Williams brings Tar Heels together] Reference
Or organize the pajama drawer (because having folded T-shirts in two neat piles is clearly not organized enough). From Wordnik.com. [Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway] Reference
Happy parents Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie yesterday celebrated the arrival of newborn twin piles of dollar bills. From Wordnik.com. [Brangelina twins: First pictures of cash to be published in US magazine] Reference
I called the piles "pyramids" and when I asked my mom what the pyramids were for, she thought I meant THE Pyramids. From Wordnik.com. [I Want YOU (to leave a comment on this entry specifically, because I am ever the curious one)] Reference
On the one hand, we dread being awash in piles of useless clutter that clogs the rhythmn of our lives and gluts our senses. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Lieberthal owns three video game systems and more than 50 game cartridges, many of them in piles near the couch in the living room. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Lieberthal's season of discontent] Reference
Someone once said that the biggest thing missing from slush piles is compassion -- for the characters, the setting, the imagined world. From Wordnik.com. [A Crisis of Nonexistent Faith] Reference
County officials called the piles a health hazard and nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [DailyHerald.com > News] Reference
Mrs Barbauld’s and Mrs Trimmer’s nonsense lay in piles about. From Wordnik.com. [Goody Two Shoes | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"] Reference
The concrete used in the piles was a 1-3-5 Portland cement, sand and. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
It’ll be pulling in piles of money even though it’s on the networks. From Wordnik.com. [X-Men: Origins – workprint online] Reference
Sometime it can be difficult to know as piles can be internal and painless. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
Midway between the piles was the little door through which he shoveled the coal into the fireroom. From Wordnik.com. [Harrigan] Reference
(Some Florida sports fans were sitting in piles of snow in Foxboro, or yelling in front of the TV. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the News: December 2003] Reference
Blue Bonnet recalled the piles of fluffy whiteness that covered chairs and window-seat, and, turning, went up-stairs quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's] Reference
Worn down by the shoveling of tailings in piles. From Wordnik.com. [Will you be having turkey on Thursday? « Dating Jesus] Reference
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