Sentence examples for heap from inspiring English sources

Hughes's redemption is complete; not so long ago, he was on the managerial scrap heap after a sacking by Hartlepool United.

The men in baggy green were supposed to fly to South Africa fat and happy on the unprecedented euphoria of their shock Ashes whitewash, take one look at the strange colours of Africa, face up to the first inswinger from Dale Steyn and promptly fall in a heap.

The heart of the biodynamic garden is the compost heap, which is meticulously tended using plant-based concoctions.

Brian McAvera Downpatrick, County Down Not content to heap singularly harsh criticism on the work of the departing director of Tate Britain, Penelope Curtis, Jonathan Jones goes so far as to suggest that the gallery should close down and dispose of its collections.

I'm a chef by trade, but cooking during the week can often feel more a chore than a pleasure: that mad scramble to get supper on the table without collapsing in a shattered heap.

"There's not a heap of point going into that sort of stuff," he said.

The pursuing officers then open fire, after attempting to use a Taser, and Antonio falls to the ground in a heap.

And I dread the admin and heap of paperwork which I know will be the bane of my life until the day I retire.

But companies should not throw all such folk on the scrap-heap.

As he did what he described later as "raking over the muck-heap", Fisher realised that many had been too poorly done to prove anything at all.So he set out to understand how such work could be done most efficiently, and without the results being swamped by external influences such as the weather.

But imposing such rules around the world would be so hard that it would consign IFRS to join Esperanto on the dust-heap of dashed dreams.