How to Use pile in a Sentence
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Huge snow piles, huge snow mounds.
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CBS News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Like, piles of garbage, trash bags.
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Emma Seiwell,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Avoid tall grass and piles of leaves.
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Cody Godwin,
USA Today,
27 Apr. 2026
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Was a big pile of lip balm worth all those hours?
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Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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For a lighter meal, a pile of greens works too.
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Jenna Sims,
Southern Living,
4 Apr. 2026
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None of us can let the sand pile up for too long.
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James Folta,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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But these ten recipes have risen to the top of the pile.
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Lizzy Briskin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 Nov. 2025
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Store piles of wood off the ground and away from your home.
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Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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Do not add to the compost pile.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
4 Oct. 2025
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The house is now a pile of rubble.
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Hadeel Al-Shalchi,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2026
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The piles of dishes in the sink.
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Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The diggers pulled up a pile of forks.
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Dana Goodyear,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Most people see a pile of old clothes.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2026
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Or a big pile of unclaimed brassieres?
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Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
28 Apr. 2026
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Who makes dirt into such a nice pile?
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Literary Hub,
5 Jan. 2026
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Churning piles of knees that hook and trip.
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Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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Or at least add them to a compost pile.
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Luke Miller,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Sep. 2025
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That is a steaming hot pile of garbage.
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Austin Perry Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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Add them to your to-be-read piles this month, and stay safe.
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Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
27 Feb. 2026
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In one of those piles was our baby girl.
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Vaughan Bagley,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Mar. 2026
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Don't add them to the compost pile!
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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The lawn may soon be covered in piles of leaves.
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Lauren David,
Southern Living,
27 Sep. 2025
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Each evening to keep the pile-up at bay, tidy and clean the kitchen.
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Rebecca Jones,
Southern Living,
30 May 2026
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That moves you from the pile to the shortlist.
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Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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There were candles in the kitchen and piles of plates.
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Cynthia Zarin,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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But giving doesn’t have to be about piles of cash.
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Luciana Lopez,
CNN Money,
31 Dec. 2025
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There’s this huge, huge pile of clothes just sitting.
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Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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But the pile of wood implies more work needs to be done.
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Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
6 Nov. 2025
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Or a pile of stones where once there had been a convent.
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Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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Here are some tips for dealing with a big pile of mulch.
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Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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Garbage piled up on city streets.
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Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Mail could be seen piled at the door.
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Graham Kates,
CBS News,
9 Mar. 2026
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Has been piled up like this for years.
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Jim Radcliffe,
Oc Register,
26 Sep. 2025
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The soft-serve here comes piled high on the cone.
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Kat Robinson River Valley Eats,
Arkansas Online,
31 Aug. 2025
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There’s been a lot of dirt piled up and hauled out.
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Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
4 Sep. 2025
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Don't pile mulch up against the stems or leaves of plants.
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Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Rows of corpses wrapped in white shrouds were piled up out front.
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Meg Kelly,
Washington Post,
1 Nov. 2023
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And then my coffee cups would pile up.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
30 Mar. 2026
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Parchment is piled high at its base.
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Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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But the body count is piling up.
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ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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Stop letting your notes pile up.
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Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The losses piled up over the next few months.
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Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
4 June 2026
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The days crawl by and pile atop of each other.
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Eli Sharabi,
Time,
1 Oct. 2025
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Still, pushback has piled up along the way.
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ABC News,
12 June 2026
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Still, pushback has piled up along the way.
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Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2026
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So far, those wins have been piling up.
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Rick Armstrong,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2026
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But, but the body count is, is piling up.
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ABC News,
14 Sep. 2025
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As the outs piled up, the boos got louder.
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Will Sammon,
New York Times,
13 June 2026
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Avoid piling them up next to the stem to avoid rot.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette,
Southern Living,
8 Apr. 2026
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Over time, the excess has piled up in soils.
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Dinesh Phuyal,
The Conversation,
26 Jan. 2026
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Do not pile mulch against the tree’s trunk; that can cause the bark to rot.
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Beth Botts,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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Third step, start that defense and watch the points pile up.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
21 Oct. 2025
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Third step, start that defense and watch the points pile up.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Oct. 2025
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That said, dirt, crumbs, and pet hair pile up quickly.
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Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
18 June 2026
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This stunning dessert is piled high with fresh berries glazed with jam.
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Lizzy Briskin,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Feb. 2026
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No wood chips should ever be piled up against the trunk of a tree.
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Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
1 Apr. 2026
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The crowd cheered, the owner pumped his fist, and the stats piled up.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2026
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Ships at anchor show where crude is piling up.
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Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
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And watch out for how those exceptions to rules pile up.
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Gail Cornwall,
Parents,
1 Apr. 2026
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Much of the debris is piled and burned out of fire season.
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Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
13 Apr. 2026
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