Sentence examples for leaves piled up from inspiring English sources

It was a story writ large across the whole city – leaves piled up knee-deep on the sidewalk, restaurant tables uncleared and water glasses un-refilled.

The leaves pile up, blocking her heart.

And this time of year the student excuses swirl about my office door like so many autumn leaves piling up around a Vermont cabin.

Company officials acknowledged that cleaning up what has been left, piled up, could take a week or longer, even as crews work nights and weekends.

Ossetian, Cossack and Chechen militias which had come in behind the Russian troops had been on a spree of killings, looting and burning in the villages around Gori, and dead bodies had been left piled up in the heat, leading to fears of an outbreak of disease.

Behind the foundation is a thick copse of hardwoods, where the leaves have piled up over the years.

"We sweep all day but by the end of the day, the leaves have piled up again where we swept".

Sanitation workers went on a wildcat strike, leaving garbage piled up in the South Bronx and on the Upper East Side alike.

When municipal workers in Toronto and Windsor went on strike this summer, leaving rubbish piled up in the streets and head-high weeds in parks, residents had little sympathy.

At least 19 people were killed across the two states; thousands of homes were flooded and hundreds of cars left abandoned, piled up in a foot or so of murky water on the motorway.The flooding is the worst in central Texas in over a decade possibly the worst since 1981, when a flood, also on the Memorial Day holiday weekend, killed 11 people in Austin.

To make way for new graves, the older remains were exhumed in 1511 by a half-blind monk, who left them piled up in the church basement.