HEAP in a Sentence

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181 example sentences for HEAP, such as:

1. Add one heaped tablespoon of salt.
2. His clothes lay in a heap on the floor.
3. It was a heap of filth and it was Sinai.
4. The machine flung up great heaps of earth.
5. There was a big heap of stones in the road.

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 Meanings and Examples of HEAP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heap
 n.  crowd or throng; a great number of persons; pile or mass
Classic Sentence: (162 in 11 pages)
1  The slaves, my companions, those who had taken them, soldiers, sailors, blacks, whites, mulattoes, and at last my captain, all were killed, and I remained dying on a heap of dead.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, which form a heap among the nettles.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  At last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing where there was a great heap of whitish stones.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGE...
4  He took the sleeping Cosette gently in his arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of use, in the most remote corner of the shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII—THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS
5  In a corner, on a tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin woman and a number of children were piled in a heap.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
6  A heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
7  She had pulled an old sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap of iron.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
8  In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared for some definite use, two heaps were visible, which appeared to be, the one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVII—THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9  Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner near the heap of old iron with their feet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
10  This is caused by the corner for refuse, which is fat or lean, according to the will of the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
11  He had the mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing a Raphael in a heap of daubs.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII—THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES
12  It was a heap of filth and it was Sinai.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
13  They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondetour lane, of which they were still the masters.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NO...
14  Among the heap they could distinguish a livid face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a woman.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE
15  Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la Chanvrerie, a battle worthy of a wall of Troy.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  There was a heap of stones where the building used to be.
2  There was a big heap of stones in the road.
3  A heap of old clothes was lying in the corner.
4  He has dug up the tiles that cover the floor and left them in a heap.
5  Down deep in that ugly heap Marie Curie felt sure that her new element lay hidden.
6  His clothes lay in a heap on the floor.
7  Some people believe that Communism has been relegated/consigned to the scrap heap of history.
8  He put the cardboard boxes in a heap and stamped them down.
9  When suddenly, thump! thump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
10  He was at the apex of his career: he had climbed to the top of the heap.
11  The compost heap was most malodorous in summer.
12  I would rather have the affectionate regard of my fellow men than I would have heaps and mines of gold.
13  The machine flung up great heaps of earth.
14  By late in the afternoon, all police officers had vacated the government district of the capital, leaving behind burned military trucks, mattresses and heaps of garbage at the positions they had occupied for months.
15  Add one heaped tablespoon of salt.