Use pile in a sentence
Sentences starting with pile
- Pile up the Symbols! [5]
- Pile after pile of papers and letters of the late Earl and his Countess had passed through her hands from chaos to order. [11]
- Pile it in! [5]
Sentences ending with pile
- Back of the town rise highlands that are clothed in woodland loveliness, and over the way is that noble mountain, Wellington, a stately bulk, a most majestic pile. [5]
- George adds money to the pile. [5]
- I hurried back to give Farrar a hand with the ropes, and it was O'Meara who caught the one I flung ashore and wound it around a pile. [9]
- The waiter prepared them for purchasers by putting a large piece of yellow butter on the smoking pile. [10]
- Stephen paused under the awning, of which there were many shading the brick pavement, to regard the straggling line of stores and houses which surrounded and did homage to the yellow pile. [9]
- They will raise surprising crops of vegetables on a sand pile. [5]
- I saw Table Rock, anyway--a majestic pile. [5]
- He has too much under construction in the business of his life, and if one stone slips out, down may come the whole pile. [11]
- It was not many sentence's after his first before he began to hesitate, and break, and lose his grip, and totter, and wobble, and at last he slumped down in a limp and mushy pile. [5]
- He had been known to stand singly in some perilous spot when one log, the key to the jam, must be shifted to set free the great tumbled pile. [11]
Short sentences using pile
- It's a pile! [5]
More example sentences with the word pile in them
- The more requirements you can pile upon him, the better he likes it. [5]
- Sometimes a man would gather up all the iron fragments and unbursted shells in his neighborhood, and pile them into a kind of monument in his front yard--a ton of it, sometimes. [5]
- A rich man won't have anything but your very best; and you can just pile it on, too--pile it on and sock it to him-- he won't ever holler. [5]
- It is a wide stretch of cheap little brick houses, with here and there a noble architectural pile lifting itself out of the midst-government buildings, these. [5]
- At last the whole pile was one huge blaze. [10]
- The next morning, when Hodder entered his study, he sighed as his eye fell upon the unusual pile of letters on his desk, for their writers had once been his friends. [9]
- Howbeit, one single well-spent hour in life, or one toilsome deed fruitful for good, hath at all times brought me better comfort than a whole pile of pig-skin-covered tomes. [10]
- The evening after we had left New York, while we were still off the coast of Long Island, I saw on the poop a crowd of steerage passengers listening intently to harangues by speakers addressing them from the top of a pile of life rafts. [9]
- His last acts was to go his pile on "Kings-and" (calkatin' to fill, but which he didn't fill), when there was a "flush" out agin him, and naterally, you see, he went under. [5]
- And indeed it was fine and stirring to hear the Paladin rehearse his deeds and see him pile his dead, fifteen here, eighteen there, and thirty-five yonder; but this only postponed the trouble; it could not do more. [5]
- On the table was a pile of gold and paper money, and he was keeping the bank. [2]
- Near the box was a pile of bank notes and a piece of paper covered with figured in pencil. [5]
- Skins hung along two sides, with bullet-holes and knife-holes showing: of the great grey wolf, the red puma, the bronze hill-lion, the beaver, the bear, and the sable; and in one corner was a huge pile of them. [11]
- And as he turned to the pile of correspondence she heard him sigh. [9]
- Then we heaped together a huge pile of the driftwood on the beach and raised a blazing beacon, the red light of which I doubt not could be seen from the mainland. [9]
- He went back to the pile of dry goods, and began to work. [9]
- I'm not trying to limit their generosity--indeed no, they may pile that Standard Oil, Helen Keller College Fund as high as they please, they have my consent. [5]
- He found himself, to his surprise, surveying with equanimity the pile of books in the corner which had led him to the conviction of the emptiness of the universe--but the universe was no longer empty! [9]
- I am ashamed to confess what an intolerable pile of manuscript I ground out in the 35 days, therefore I will keep the number of words to myself. [5]
- Now was the time to pile in the effects. [5]
- Not long after this, happening to call in at the lawyer's office, his eye was caught by the corner of a book lying covered up by a pile of papers. [6]
- At sight of this millionaire with the pile of notes before him there vanished the sickening hesitation of the afternoon, of the journey with Dupont. [11]
- He remembered that there was a heap of flour- bags near where the man stood when the match was thrown down; and that some loose strings for tying were also in a pile beside the bags. [11]
- Besides the four, there was a figure that lay sleeping in a corner on a pile of pine branches, wrapped in a bearskin robe. [11]
- If we threw the water on our heads and gave them a rub or so, the white lather would pile up three inches high. [5]
- I sprang through the underbrush and came down roughly into a sort of quarry, spraining my ankle on a pile of stones. [11]
- The document on the top of the pile in the box related to Cyprus--the name caught her eye. [11]
- Dubarre rose from the table, threw himself upon the little pile of otter- skins, and lay watching Villiard and mechanically studying the little room. [11]
- He also noted the position of a pile of horse blankets, midway of the route, with the intent to levy upon them for the service of the crown of England for one night. [5]
- A thrust of the point, and in an instant gone, and no one to know, no one to discover, no one to add blame to blame, to pile shame upon shame. [11]
- Shorter glanced at the pile of favours. [9]
- For I'm told the money-bags and the stately pile are for you. [11]
- I landed on the island and watched with great interest the men as they pried, twisted and tumbled the pile to get at the key-log which, found and loosened, would send the heap into the water. [11]
- In the room the gas was burning full head; on a chair was a pile of clothing. [5]
- Good gracious, it's the country to pile up wealth in! [5]
- A letter in the bold and upright hand of his son was on the top of the pile, placed there by Mr. Flint himself, who had examined Mr. Worthington's face closely when he came in to see how much he might know of its contents. [9]
- The same day that the body was found it was burnt on a pile of precious wood. [10]
- Madelinette was standing, tense and set with terror, her eyes riveted on something that crouched beside a pile of cart-wheels a few feet away; something with shaggy head, flaring eyes, and a devilish face. [11]
- The artistically worked Syrian drinking vessels on the sideboard, tables, and consoles were of many forms; beautiful vases full of flowers stood everywhere; rare perfumes rose from alabaster cups, and the foot sank in the thick pile of the carpets which covered the floor. [10]
- I allowed the subject to rest there, and asked for something to eat and smoke, and something hot to drink, and a basket to pile my legs in; but I could not have any of these things. [5]
- This pile of stone is peculiar. [5]
- My pile of stock was not all given to me by people who wished their claims "noticed. [5]
- By and by somebody discovered that the odor came from a pile of cheese on the forward deck, covered with a canvas; it seemed that the Rhinelanders are so fond of it that they take it with them when they travel. [4]
- The old woman smiled and pointed to a pile of fresh leaves heaped one above another, beneath which lay several fine shad. [10]
- Suddenly, at a slight bend of the road, the corner of the little red building came in sight, some hundreds of yards ahead; and, on the side where it stood, in the clearing, was a white mass which Victoria recognized as a pile of lumber. [9]
- He placed a similar pile before himself. [11]
- Keep the ball rolling, gentlemen, keep it rolling!--fifty!--thanks, noble Roman!--going at fifty, fifty, fifty!--seventy!--ninety!--splendid!--a hundred!--pile it up, pile it up!--hundred and twenty--forty!--just in time!--hundred and fifty!--Two hundred!--superb! [5]
- It is a rambling pile of old buildings, in the center of the town, with a courtyard in the middle, and in it a deep well, boring down I know not how far into the rock, and always full of cold sweet water. [4]
- That night a pony and cart took away from the house of Annette's father the chest of drawers, the bed, the bedding, the pieces of linen, and the pile of yarn which had been made ready so long against Benoit's coming. [11]
- He's made his pile, but he's entitled to something we all are. [9]
- He's made his pile, and he don't begrudge some of it to the fellows who do the work. [9]
- He passed a pile over to Rawley--two thousand dollars. [11]
- There was a pile of trunks as big as a city dwelling-house. [4]
- We put our pile of quicksilver balls into an iron retort that had a pipe leading from it to a pail of water, and then applied a roasting heat. [5]
- Sunday, after his pile of newspapers had religiously been disposed of, became a field day. [9]
- It is a pile of granite masonry surmounted by symbolic figures. [4]
- They raised their pile of dry brush and damp weeds higher and higher, and when they saw the thick cloud begin to roll up and smother the tree, they broke out in a storm of joy-clamors. [5]
- Look at that pile of cats in your chair, and you sitting on a candle-box, just as patient; it's because they're her cats. [5]
- They made a pile eighteen feet long, seven feet high, and eight feet wide. [5]
- If I have, pile coals of fire on my head, for I deserve it! [5]
- C. C.] And perhaps, Richard," he concluded, with a last lingering look at the old pile as he turned his horses, "perhaps some day, I shall remember what you told us at Brooks's. [9]
- But there were other carriages at the door, there was a pile of trunks on the veranda, which he nearly stumbled over, although his foot struck nothing, and the chairs were full, and people were strolling up and down the piazza. [4]
- He laid down on the mass the pile of foreign magazines he had brought under his arm. [8]
- His eyes were on the keyrock and the pile, alert, measuring, intent. [11]
- All the hills on both sides of the Rhone have peaks and precipices, and each has its gray and wasted pile of mouldy walls and broken towers. [5]
- They met the old sculptor Lysander, who had been a friend of their father's, outside the magnificent pile of buildings of the Caesareum. [10]
- This sounds kind of frightful, whereas when you come to think of it, a burning curtain or pile of furniture hasn't any element of danger about it in this fortress. [5]
- I cannot conceive of a rational man deliberately piling such an atrocious job upon himself; but if there is such a man and you be that man, why then pile it on. [5]
- This morning Marion noticed a letter from Frank amongst the pile, and, without a word, pounced upon it. [11]
- The anchorites sat near each other on a low block of stone, which Hermas had made into a soft couch for his father by heaping up a high pile of fresh herbs. [10]
- I had seen my lady off for England, wearing my faded flowers, the panniers of the fine gentleman in a neglected pile at her cabin door. [9]
- I was never more aware of this than when, shortly after dawn Wednesday, the massive grey pile of the Palace of Versailles suddenly rose before me. [9]
- She saw several men on the top of the pile, standing motionless; she heard one of them shout; the horse swerved, and she felt herself flung violently to the left. [9]
- I have seen men hunt over a pile of nearly worthless quartz for an hour, and at last find a little piece as large as a filbert, which was rich in gold and silver--and this was reserved for a fire-assay! [5]
- With these enthusiastic masses, to whom bold advance would secure the highest good, and timid hesitation could bring nothing save death and ruin, they had expected to rush over the Etham line as if it were a pile of faggots. [10]
- Others, again, have made their pile on taking it. [5]
- He could have made a pile of money out of 'em. [9]
- I pile up lots of work, nevertheless. [5]
- But to put it on the other ground: suppose that there was such an amendment offered, and Chase's was an amendment to an amendment; until one is disposed of by parliamentary law, you cannot pile another on. [7]
- Sergeant Tom replied instantly: "No, I'll do it if someone will show me the grass pile. [11]
- By no means insensible to the comfort of being within doors, he ordered Tom Scott to pile the little stove with coals, and, dismissing his work for that day, determined to be jovial. [12]
- She marked the inevitable false rhyme of Cockney and Yankee beginners, morn and dawn, and tossed the verses on the pile of papers she had finished. [6]
- The main feature in this central pile is the great dome, which swells upward to nearly two-thirds of a sphere and tapers at its extremity into a pointed spire crowned by a crescent. [5]
- Hearing footsteps ahead in the dusk, I passed up the aisle, and came upon a pile of debris. [11]
- When he came in sight of the house, he knelt down in the dust by a pile of rails and prayed. [4]
- It was written in a discoloured blank-book, which had escaped the devastations of the mice and insects, because it had lain under a pile of aromatic herbs and drugs that had probably belonged to the shop of the Court apothecary. [10]
- On a shelf I found a pile of my books, and I knew what it meant. [5]
- She became almost hysterical with glee as she pictured him lying prone beneath the counter dedicated to lingerie, draped with various garments from the pile that toppled over on him. [9]
- In his three-roomed hut he laid his charge down upon a pile of bear-skins, and tended him with a strange gentleness, bathing the wound in the head and binding it again and again. [11]
- There was a hog-back--as we used to call 'em--a pile of rocks stickin' up, and I saw the herd was goin' to split round it, or swing out to the left. [13]
- General Cheatham made his men strip their coats off and throw them in a pile, and said, 'Now follow me to hell or victory! [5]
- Let each pile his dead according to his own fashion and taste. [5]
- My friend seated himself on the pile next to mine, and said, "It strikes me you have been behaving rather queer lately, Crocker. [9]
- On a fair hill we see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Castle, huge relic and witness of the baronial grandeurs of the Middle Ages. [5]
- She would let her skirts down so as to make a kind of train, and pile things on her head like a sort of crown, fold her arms and throw her head back, and feel as grand as a queen. [6]
- As she entered, Henderson was seated at his desk, with bowed head and perplexed brows, sorting a pile of papers before him, and making notes. [4]
- Then she was helped up to the top of the pile of wood that was built around the lower third of the stake and stood upon it with her back against the stake, and the world gazing up at her breathless. [5]
- As I was heaping this in a pile I heard something that I should not have heard. [9]
- Then, before I had guessed at his drift, he thrust his hand inside his coat and drew forth a pile of carefully folded bank notes. [9]
- There was a great pile of it strapped on top of the stage, and both the fore and hind boots were full. [5]
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