Sentence examples for be a heap from inspiring English sources
Ahead is what appears to be a heap of several hundred tonnes of woodchip.
This summer Tokyo's supposedly oldest man, 111-year-old Sogen Kato, turned out to be a heap of bones covered in newspapers dating from 1978.
"Thai nachos" turned out to be a heap of greasy shrimp chips the texture of Styrofoam, with a mild dipping sauce of coconut and minced shrimp and chicken.
In a mangy patch of yard, there appeared to be a heap of two-by-fours, which revealed themselves, upon investigation, to be the remains of an outhouse that must have been blown down in a storm.
Fassbinder retained the Nabokovian humor but introduced his own astonishing touches, like the moment when Bogarde's Hermann, the owner of a chocolate factory during the rise of the Nazis, stares down into a pile of baby-shaped chocolates in a bin, his eyes growing wide with premonitory horror at what suddenly seems to be a heap of corpses.
Carneades, an early leader of the school, used a form of "heap" argument (a thousand grains is a heap; take one away, it's still a heap; but one grain is not a heap; so when does it cease to be a heap?).
It will be a heaped pile.
Some may prefer that one-fourth cup to be a heaping one, almost one-third of a cup.
They are a heap on the floor.
