Sentence examples for building pile from inspiring English sources

A wastepile, to which is thrown faceup a card that, when turned from the stock, cannot legally be played to a building pile or to the tableau.

Alstott kept his feet as he backpedaled, turned to his left and dashed around the building pile of bodies clawing at him, ultimately racing into the end zone.

A tableau (layout) of cards, which may be filled or empty to start with, in which cards that cannot be added to a building pile may be temporarily stored, provided that they follow specified rules governing their placement there.

The top (or exposed) card of each pile is usually available for adding to a building pile if it fits or for transferring to the top of another tableau pile provided it follows a specified rule.

A new building pile may be started in its place with a 1 or a Skip-Bo card.

When a building pile reaches the number 12, scoop it up and set it aside to be added to the draw pile when it runs down.

Some games, such as spider and scorpion, combine the tableau with the building piles, so that building takes place within the tableau itself.

There were military vehicles, men with guns, construction trucks, cops, a barbed wire fence and several hundred tons of building piled high in the midnight sky.

A shuffled deck of cards, or two decks shuffled together, forming a stock from which the player turns (usually) one card at a time and plays it to one of the building piles if it properly continues the sequence.

High friction is needed for the satisfactory functioning of nuts and bolts, paper clips, and tongs, as well as in the familiar processes of walking, gripping objects manually, and building piles of sand or of apples.

Walls and windows also crumbled, leaving the shell of the building piled with rubble, witnesses said.