Sentence examples for know a pile from inspiring English sources

"There's a snobbish mentality in the jazz scene where people think if they don't know a pile of history or who played on what record they can't have an opinion about the music," Mr. Batiste said.

Americans may not know all the details or keep track of all the machinations, but they know a piling on when they see it.

In a loose analogy, it is much easier to know that a pile of ice in a warm room will melt, than to know exactly how fast it will melt.

Analysts still want to know how a pile of CDOs that warranted barely a mention a few weeks ago can now be inflicting so much damage.

Germany's famous national anthem, "Deutschland Über Alles," is not the traditional public artifact it is often believed to be but music by Haydn, laboriously fashioned (as we know from a pile of rejected sketches) in his "Emperor" String Quartet.

In "Everybody Does," her most popular song online, she warbles, "I know I'm a pile of filthy wreckage you will wish you'd never touched / But you're gonna run when you find out who I am / It's alright, everybody does".

Did you know that having piles and piles and piles of garbage, expensive or otherwise, in your house and bag and pockets is a way to keep you slavish and broke and boring?

"It was because everyone respected Dick Clarke and knew he was a pile driver," the official said.

Consider: A bank wants to sell the TARPistas (also known as TAXPAYERS) a pile of stinky mortgage securities that it currently values at 60 cents on the dollar.

They have been known to collect a pile of plants in one area before eating them.

I say, "What, like a tree fort?" and he goes, "You know that pile of leaves in the backyard at the end of the cul de sac?" I'm like, "That's your fort?" and he says "Yes".