The phrase "a towering pile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large, impressive, or overwhelming stack of something, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "After the storm, we were left with a towering pile of debris that took days to clear away."
Alternatives: "a massive heap" or "an enormous stack".
The next day, he sliced through a towering pile of legislation awaiting his signature, approving 93 bills and blocking 62 others from becoming law.
He's just as concerned with making a novel about real characters as he is with creating a towering pile of ideas.
It offered some comfort during the weeks spent hidden away from the world by a towering pile of books in the university library.
That evening, inside the town of Beichuan, four women wailed as they burned incense and paper money in front of a towering pile of rubble.
Right now, nothing seems more exciting than waving goodbye to parents, heading on to stage and scaling a towering pile of cardboard boxes to find out what lies beyond: the space in the sky where Jack's beanstalk has grown.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Wearing a Nike visor, sunglasses, a crisp linen shirt and pressed jeans, Randal Perkins of Pompano Beach, Fla., watched with satisfaction as his $400,000 hydraulic excavator clawed into a towering pile of concrete chunks in the shattered heart of this city.
Where was the towering pile of snow that would be measured in feet not inches?
"See for yourself what we are up against," he went on, pointing to the towering pile of concrete floor slabs.
And, absolutely, Brown deserves credit for what he's done: persuading Californians of the virtues of the tax hikes, cutting billions of dollars in spending, and starting to shovel away the state's towering pile of long-term debt.
Even now, he did not want to recall the international censure his first embryo-editing report had generated, nor the towering pile of inquiries that flowed into his in-box.
The first in my towering pile of books is Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide (Hamish Hamilton), because I think the government spying that he uncovered via Edward Snowden is terrifying and I'd like to know more.
