Sentence examples for a small heap from inspiring English sources

It's ladled, at the table, over a small heap of spiced black beans.

The accompaniment, too, is conservative but satisfying, a small heap of black beans and buttery avocado.

He keeps sample cakes of opium in a small heap near a tea kettle.

He takes several pillboxes from his pockets and empties their contents on the chair — a small heap of white tablets.

When she returns she sees a small heap of glasses, Sandra's favorites, shattered, & she understands Sandra did this herself.

He did nothing more elaborate than, say, bunch carrots together or place several sugar beets in a small heap.

A small mountain, a spoil heap estimated at 6,000 tonnes, stands waiting to be backfilled into the site.

Here it's Jidori chicken, served heaped in a small pot, sticky with the slightly sweet sauce, scented with star anise and mixed with thick slices of ginger, whole cloves of garlic, chiles, basil and green onions.

But read on: "A little mass, tuft, or bundle... a small, compact heap".

Yesterday, taking their breaks, they could stare over the so-called bathtub wall, where below they could see all that was left of the World Trade Center, a small ashen heap less than two stories high, tiny now amid the 16-acre expanse of the site.

"I don't know why this has happened to us," said Bena Ben Gopal, a farm laborer and mother of two as she stood by the small heap of rubble that used to be her home.