How to Use dogpile in a Sentence

dogpile

1 of 2 noun
  • Kidd sprinted from the bench to join in the team-wide dogpile, too.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • She got stuck at the bottom of the dogpile as her legs seized up from cramps.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Wouldn’t have wanted to be on the bottom of that dogpile, though.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 2 June 2021
  • Screaming for the mob of players who formed a one ton dogpile on top of him to get off.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Summer is gone, and the fall has brought a historic dogpile of action.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • What will all of this will cost, beyond a dogpile of games crossing two seasons?
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • At that point the fleeing person was under a dogpile about 10 feet away.
    — Heather Hollingsworth, arkansasonline.com, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Lots of pushing and shoving commenced in the midst of a dogpile on the Louisville sideline.
    — Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Swift’s career ended with a dogpile on the same diamond two years later.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 30 May 2026
  • In that sense, the social media dogpile was actually a net win.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Only one community — the one in orange, or the one in red and black — can end the series in a dogpile on the field though.
    — Dallas News, 1 June 2022
  • One mistake in a championship game can be the difference between a loss and a dogpile on the pitcher’s mound.
    — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2024
  • Crowe stepped on the bag to finish Walsh’s four innings of relief, leading to a dogpile of joyous Hoban players.
    — Matt Goul, cleveland, 14 June 2021
  • The Mustangs rushed from the dugout to partake in a familiar activity — a dogpile.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 June 2025
  • The Mustangs celebrated in a dogpile at the mound after their victory.
    — Martin Henderson, Oc Register, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The Tigers’ dugout emptied and the celebratory dogpile behind the mound ensued.
    — Eric Olson, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025
  • This, in addition to the numerous reporters commenting on each other’s updates, was nothing more than a dogpile.
    — Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • That was the night that ended in a dogpile around Murray, who drilled a game-winning buzzer beater over Anthony Davis.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Suriano, a junior, hugged her senior catcher, Rachel Del Busto, and the two were buried in a dogpile near the circle.
    — Bernie Wilson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025
  • Peyton Steele tagged from third and appeared to easily slide home with the game-winning run, creating a Hartselle dogpile down the first base line.
    — Ben Thomas | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • Welsh, a lefty, moved over from first base for Helms and closed out the victory in the seventh with three strikeouts, as the Bobcats celebrated with a dogpile on the mound.
    — Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2021
  • The celebration on the field was subdued, no dogpile, no dancing, just veteran champions acting like champions.
    — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The Tigers stormed the infield, forming a gigantic dogpile near the mound as Oregon State players watched in disbelief from the home dugout railing.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 June 2022
  • Coastal got the leadoff man on in the bottom of the ninth, but Shores struck out Ty Dooley and then Sykes bounced into a double play to ignite the infield dogpile.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 22 June 2025
  • Which of these exquisite vehicular specimens will be standing atop this impossibly elegant dogpile of classics?
    — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022
  • What was fun about this dogpile of not-so-minor miracles was that the best of them, the real bacon-saving heroics, came not necessarily from the most heralded of Dodgers, but the other guys.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Now, along with a who's who of out-of-town players, Midland's top squad again has some familiar high school faces who seek the winning dogpile in New Mexico in late July.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 30 June 2021
  • When the final whistle sounded, Vitiello’s jubilant teammates buried him beneath a dogpile in front of the goal before heading to the south grandstands to celebrate with their supporters.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • In early August, during a training camp joint practice with the Washington Commanders, Vrabel jumped into a dogpile to break up a fight among players.
    — Saad Yousuf, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Northeastern threatened with a pair of baserunners in the bottom of the seventh, but Huber silenced the Jets with three final outs to clinch a trip to Akron, and cause a dogpile of Spartans on the field.
    — Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022

dogpile

2 of 2 verb
  • When Pham crushed a backhand winner down the line, he was dogpiled by teammates.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
  • The players began to dogpile on top of each other with some punches being thrown in the ruckus.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • His teammates, some of whom are Knicks fans and others Knicks haters, dogpiled on each other.
    — Tom Bogert, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • But there's no need to dogpile on this other family just because he got convicted.
    — Kelsie Cairns, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2026
  • The second was black and white, and a little more intimate, showing the three children dogpiling on their dad.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
  • The real action begins when there's only one silver ball left, and all the remaining guys dogpile on top of each other to fight for it.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Many of us may delight in dogpiling Rogan’s artistic failure online, but silence could be the stronger choice.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The Giants can’t dogpile on a guy between first and second, and the A’s can’t give anyone a Gatorade shower or pie in the face.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 24 June 2020
  • Nearly five years after Strategy’s first purchase, companies are dogpiling on the bitcoin treasury strategy play.
    — Colin Harper, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • This model of virality wasn’t perfect and promoted dogpiling onto people who had often committed some minor, if bizarre, infraction.
    — WIRED, 27 Jan. 2023
  • In less than a month, eight teams will start a week-long journey competing for the right to dogpile on top of each other, celebrating a College World Series national championship.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • Social media users immediately began dogpiling on Omondi.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
  • But an unpopular war in the Middle East and its resulting oil supply squeeze, sharply higher gas prices and greater risks of inflationary contagion have dogpiled atop sentiment already soured by cost of living concerns.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 27 May 2026
  • The Mustangs prematurely celebrated a would-be state title, dogpiling on the field with fireworks going off only to find out the game wasn’t over — then watched Troy Triad tie it in an unlikely fashion.
    — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2026
  • The dogpiling consisted of immediate responses from Recho’s followers.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025

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