Sentence examples for been piled on from inspiring English sources

The appetizers that preceded these winners were very ordinary: shrimp spring rolls, which contained very little shrimp; thin crab cakes that were nothing special; and tomato, olive and white bean bruschetta that were dry and tasted as though the toppings had been piled on at the last minute.

Instead Colbert attempts to extricate what he sees as the essential message of Christianity from the piles of intellectual rot and political carpet bags that have been piled on and around it in the last 10 years.

Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.

He was unprepared for the corpses that had been piled on the side of the road.

Most of the blame has been piled on Railtrack, the track-and-signal operator, which has been accused of caring about profit more than safety.

Maybe Leyland knew that, were she to be subjected to a fraction of the notoriety that has been piled on the McCanns, she would indeed be destroyed.

Second, local governments have been piling on debt.

But all the pagan-Christian trimmings are piled on so heavily that they smother individual characterization.

"And then all sorts of fees and costs are piled on," Mr. Zinner said.

So demand goes down as rules and regulations are piled on," Ribble said.

Shirts were removed, lampposts were clambered, cars were piled on and flags were waved.