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Example sentences for "piled"

Lexicographically close words:
pilau; pilchard; pilchards; pile; pileated; piler; piles; pileser; pileus; pilfer
  1. The hack started off with lighted lamps, while the four boys got the Windham trunks and piled into the waiting freight wagon on top of them, Jerry taking the reins.

  2. Carl, however, soon solved the problem by clearing the ground for several feet around him, and then, gathering twigs and sticks, piled them around the pony in a wide circle.

  3. We are piled up with business and can't be delayed by teaching the ropes to a railroad ham.

  4. They met on a curve and engines, box-cars, livestock and freight are piled up in fine shape.

  5. It is as thin as a wafer, and these crisp, gauzy sheets, when cooked, are piled in layers and then folded or rolled.

  6. In a recess of an inner room was piled a goodly store of corn in the ear.

  7. It appears that a hyena had crept up between the sleeping men, had sprung at the meat piled on the upturned roof, had misjudged the distance, and had fallen back in a heap upon Fernie.

  8. Warner rose hastily and walked to his goods piled up on the bank awaiting transportation, leaving Johnson to rumble on and on.

  9. His arms and those of his people were piled against the tree, and so, for the moment, out of reach.

  10. He had the fire piled up and saw that a plentiful supply of wood had been collected and placed handy.

  11. He left the shutter ajar, but piled up goods in front of all the windows.

  12. Firkins of fish were piled up along the sides of the interior, and in the dim background I saw a rude framework covered with straw which served as a bed.

  13. A table heaped with stale newspapers, a stand piled with sewing, a darned carpet, scratched furniture and fly-specked wall-paper.

  14. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.

  15. Upon this they piled sticks and stones and mud, and then more sticks and stones and mud, and then still more sticks and stones and mud.

  16. I know that he is short,” replied the Indian, “because he piled up stones to stand on when he took down the meat.

  17. Upon this foundation they piled sticks and sod to form walls and a roof.

  18. They told me once when they were piled on top of me, that I crucified the Christ and that they beat me "for the love of God.

  19. There was no school, no church and no synagogue service, and as we coasted down great mountains of snow, piled high by the patient toilers, we forgot the antagonisms to which so early in life we had fallen heir.

  20. All round there are cupboards, shelves, and drawers, piled with papers and documents, most of them yellow with age.

  21. It was of a pitcherful of gold hid beneath a ruin of rocks piled one upon another, an' it was near a great fortress built in a fashion unknown to me.

  22. Dolly smiled with benevolence as she piled up the light-cakes.

  23. If the bindery is connected with the pressroom, they are simply jogged, counted, and piled on trucks and delivered in this way.

  24. The printed sheets are counted automatically by the press, and as fast as enough accumulate, they are piled on hand trucks and removed to the shipping room.

  25. They are then marked with name and signature, and piled up until wanted for gathering into books.

  26. And yet another mountain range starts up before our eyes, covered with thick fir-woods, though nothing else will grow on the steep ridge, which is covered along its whole length by masses of rock piled one on the top of the other.

  27. The treasures of pillaged churches gleam forth from the leathern sacks piled one on the top of the other.

  28. The fragments of the broken furniture they piled up on the hearth, and made a great fire of the priceless ebony, mahogany, and palisander woods.

  29. Those monochromatic rocks, piled one atop the other, forming a wall all round, and seeming to prolong the mountain range, are the work of human hands.

  30. In some of the New York City hospitals, the ward for pneumonia patients is on the roof, and children and babies suffering with pneumonia are at once taken there, even with snow piled all around the tent in which they are kept.

  31. At daybreak the battalions were assembled, and their arms piled on all the grandes places.

  32. Probably the stones were picked up and piled on each side to save time in driving caravans of llamas across the stony ridges.

  33. Nevertheless, the Augustinian monks here raised the standard of the cross, recited their orisons, and piled firewood all about the rock and temple.

  34. Arrived at the sacred palisade, the monks raised the standard of the cross, recited their orisons, surrounded the spring, the white rock and the Temple of the Sun, and piled high the firewood.

  35. The highway crossed the neighboring stream on a treacherous-looking bridge, the central pier of which was built of the crudest kind of masonry piled on top of a gigantic boulder in midstream.

  36. On April 14th, just above Sicuani, we saw fields where habas beans had been gathered and the dried stalks piled in little stacks.

  37. The grim gods of the nether world smiled; they piled the sea and the waves higher into an Olympian bolt, hurled it resistless and foaming upon the helpless town, again to take toll of man's rashness.

  38. Neatly piled beside the upper reaches of the road on either hand are dismembered columns, statues, fragments of pilasters, cornices, and blocks of marble.

  39. The sun shone unhindered; the rain beat with pitiless fury; the winds swept unhampered; the snows piled up undeterred over the whole plateau and canyon country.

  40. Learn from their own words what these geological masters say of these wonderful five hundred feet thick remnants of twelve thousand feet of strata that were once piled here above the archaean rocks.

  41. Two weeks later, with his treasure of red lure safely piled at the waterfront in Belize, Johnny met his millionaire friend, Roderick Grayson, at the dock as a United Fruit steamer's launch came in.

  42. Piled on top of these were three or four dozen ripe cocoanuts.

  43. It was a stormy morning, and banks of murky clouds were piled up where the sun should have risen.

  44. He piled the other stones around it quickly.

  45. I ran after them, but they all piled into a converted jet boat and blasted out of there.

  46. The three cadets hastily piled out and raced for the darkness of the surrounding hills.

  47. The three cadets grinned at each other and soon the Venusian farmer was piled high with manuals, audioscripts, tapes, and general information about the Academy.

  48. Again the trunks were piled into the Speedwell and the bay was crossed.

  49. Great heavy black clouds were piled up in the west, and a stormy wind was beginning to blow.

  50. There were piled up, after the usage of Indian princes, immense masses of coin.

  51. Vaults piled with gold and with jewels were at his mercy.

  52. While the losses of the Americans were necessarily heavy, the German dead were piled three deep in places.

  53. For one, the Fleet sailed from Portsmouth two days ago with coal piled up like haystacks on deck.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggregate; amassed; assembled; collected; combined; conglomerate; dense; gathered; joined; joint; knotted; leagued; meeting; packaged; stacked