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. Tables were piled high with local produce.
2. The sink was piled high with greasy dishes.
3. We piled plenty of logs up next to the fire.
4. In her apron was a pile of silver tableware.
5. Then it was laid gently on the pile of jewelry.

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 Meanings and Examples of PILE
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pile
 n.  large timber or post; heap; hair; fiber of wool, cotton; head of an arrow or spear
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)
16  The soldier fired the rifle through a narrow aperture in a pile of sandbags.
17  Sophie stooped to throw another branch on the pile.
18  The pile of books flopped noisily onto the floor.
19  I always try to liken a bait pile to everyone in your town sharing the same fork at every meal.
20  I suffer from all of these types of reading, and I must admit my pile is nearly as large as yours at present.
21  The little girl piled one paper box on top of the other.
22  We piled plenty of logs up next to the fire.
23  After the game, crowds of football fans piled out.
24  The sink was piled high with greasy dishes.
25  In the village market, the stalls are piled high with local vegetables.
26  Bull-dozers piled up huge mounds of dirt.
27  Crowds of school children piled onto the train as soon as it arrived.
28  Tables were piled high with local produce.
29  A wander around any market will reveal stalls piled high with vegetables.
30  Rusted, broken-down cars in its yard, trash piled up on the porch, tar paper peeling from the roof, the shack was the picture of squalor.