Sentence examples for a heap of things. from inspiring English sources

The great discovery that Murray has donated to cinema is that the drug of deadpan need not be a downer; bewilderingly, it can be an upper, even when you clearly have a heap of things to be down about, plus a face that looks like yesterday's cinnamon Danish.

It was in the wardrobe, at the back, behind her shoes and boots, a heap of the things.

On it is a heap of books — things like John Masters's "Bhowani Junction," Joan Aiken's "Nightbirds on Nantucket," Grace Paley's "Enormous Changes at the Last Minute," Harold Robbins's "The Carpetbaggers," and Lederer and Burdick's "The Ugly American".

Partly this information is given but mostly hidden in a heap of other things (see point 2).

But without deep human relatedness, it is but a static "heap of things," a hardened reality that we run around while remaining in the same place.

Alton thinks David Cameron is right on a "whole heap of things" but stops short of promising the Tory leader his paper's full support in a poll.

— Julia Moskin Chicago Reader: A chef, handed a heap of smelts, does the sensible thing: He fries them up... — Jeff Gordinier The New York Times:... Then again, poet Dan Chiasson can find unexpected romance in the boiled ones, too.

Blame is heaped on her for a lot of things in the play.

They play so energetically that by the second song, Petralli has broken a guitar string and Josh Block has snapped a drum stick, but he's prepared for this sort of thing – there's a heap of spare sticks at his feet.

"Happiness is when you find a good thing in a heap of trash".

— Julia Moskin Real Simple: Ten smart things to do with a heap of hard-boiled eggs.