How to Use pile in a Sentence

pile

1 of 2 verb

• A day later, the Padres piled up 18 hits and scored 12 times.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• Rows of corpses wrapped in white shrouds were piled up out front.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Saddles were piled by the door, and bridles hung from the rafters.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• Mayhem ensues for the rest of the evening as the bodies pile up.
  — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• Complaints from the neighbors, fed up with the smell, piled up for years.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
• Inside the store, the thieves piled food in their arms, rummaging through shelves and the front counter.
  — Angie Orellana Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• These files pile up over time and end up slowing your phone.
  — Dua Rashid / Gizmodo, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
• Ochoa looked toward the bottom of the canyon where dozens of wattles were piled.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2023
• Just keep it healthy, don't damage the trunk or roots, and don't pile up a volcano of mulch around the trunk.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 12 June 2023
• But when things aren’t going well the failures pile up.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• In some, more than a dozen corpses lay on the ground face down, on their sides or, in one case, piled one atop the other.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• In the days after the election, the complaints against Mr. Pita piled up.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Watch guests pile their plates high—there will be barely any room left for their hot dog.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 July 2023
• The water swept in heaps of debris that were piled high on some streets Wednesday.
  — WSJ, 31 Aug. 2023
• Flowers were piled up at the traffic signal at Canal Street and Kings Road.
  — Brittany Shammas, Cate Cadell and Maham Javaid, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2023
• The two other photos appear to show the women singing karaoke in the kitchen and piling up for a group hug.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 8 July 2023
• Then those products pile up in landfills — or smash rooms.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• But, without them, locals had to collect dead livestock and pile them on the edge of town.
  — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• Traders have piled into stocks and doubled down on some of the riskiest corners of the market.
  — WSJ, 28 July 2023
• In a corner of the studio, boxes of key-chain-size Rubik’s Cubes were piled ten feet high.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The bad news keeps piling up for the makers of everything from soft drinks to chocolate and booze.
  — Lisa Pham and Dasha Afanasieva Bloomberg News (wpns), Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2023
• The problems grew worse over the course of the day, with reports piling up on the Beeper subreddit.
  — Chris Welch, The Verge, 8 Dec. 2023
• Their earnings would be tied up for weeks while bills, rent, and expenses pile up.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 29 July 2023
• But in the next frame, Rodriguez allowed a two-run homer to Leody Taveras, and in a nightmarish fourth inning, the Rangers (32-18) piled it on.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2023
• At Poppy Bagels in Oakland, a lox beauty is piled high with briny capers, snipped chives, and a tuft of dill.
  — Emma Laperruque, Bon Appétit, 27 June 2023
• Subscriptions pile up, and many may no longer be worth keeping.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 26 Feb. 2024
• They were crammed into trucks and cars, their possessions piled high.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Don't feel pressured to toss it in the trash can or to pile everyone's plate with second helpings.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2023
• His ex’s allegations would resurface; the bills from his PR team would pile up again.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• The team searched through belongings, but no one poured gas or piled up flammables.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024

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pile

2 of 2 noun

• Luckily, this time the bag was at the very top of the pile.
  — Sonia Rao, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• In many places, piles of nails and the warped husks of cars were all that remained.
  — John Vaillant, Time, 7 June 2023
• There was a pile of mangled corpses, some wrapped in white cloth, by the entrance to the town.
  — Baz Ratner, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• The base of the bowl is a pile of quinoa cooked with raisins and vinegar, giving it an agrodolce flair.
  — Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The work is Sisyphean: Move the pile from one spot this week, then go through the whole process again a week later.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• The not-dirty-enough-for-the-hamper pile is full of favorites ready for their next wear.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2024
• The friend sat in the backseat beside a pile of Thomas’s notebooks and riffed through pages.
  — Dave Hyde, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
• Every hour, get your kid to place a pile of rocks at the tip of your stick's shadow.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
• The lucky ones slept on cots, but most made do with thin blankets spread among bags and piles of trash.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 4 Sep. 2023
• From the decade of big hair and pastel suits comes the story of one man’s rise to the top of the criminal pile.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
• The processes that led to piles of skulls in Tenochtitlán are still with us.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Then comes a pile of boneless slices of meat, garnished with more skin.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• Pull out that old pile of jeans, shirts, and jackets that need mending.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2023
• Be sure to clear away large piles from structures and woodpiles.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• Most of the treasures are just stocked up in piles, awaiting for their chance to impress.
  — Jim Harrington, The Mercury News, 30 Apr. 2024
• The ideal pile height is between four and eight feet with a width of 14 to 16 feet, according to the EPA.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2024
• Video published on Thursday by the Reuters news agency shows a large pile of debris at the site of the mosque.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• On the doorstep of a nearby home was a pile of ammunition.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023
• Fly By Jing, likes to serve hers as wings, which are a bit easier to find in a pile of peppers.
  — Jing Gao, Saveur, 31 Jan. 2024
• Once baited and ready to use, hang the trap outside near a fly source like garbage or compost pile.
  — Rachel Ahrnsen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• The footpath winds past piles of junked cars, and over marshy tundra with the texture of a wet sponge, toward a mud pit.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Klimek: All around this group of people were piles of burning wood, but this wasn’t a campfire.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Wearing a unicorn horn and a pink, blue and purple tutu, Mia smiles in front of a pile of presents.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 25 Dec. 2023
• Tire tracks on the right-of-way led to a second similar pile nearby.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
• Anyone can drop off their tree, and anyone is welcome to take them to sink their own brush piles.
  — Mike Jones, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2023
• Even the jersey-over-a-T-shirt and piles of silver necklaces feel very 2019 Eilish.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Aug. 2023
• Stormi’s presents were placed on a white ottoman in the center of the room and put neatly into three piles.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2024
• Once a week, workers turn each windrow so all pieces of material spend time in the hot inner core of the pile.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
• There’s a ping-pong table, cornhole boards and a giant pile of foam building blocks for kids — all in use.
  — Danielle Paquette, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• The clip then captured a pile of gifts and balloons and Ella blowing out her candles.
  — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 28 May 2024