Sentence examples for pile about from inspiring English sources

The Pile: 1. Mix the ingredients into a manageable pile about four feet high and four feet wide.

After weaving, the floats are cut, and their ends are brushed up to form a smooth pile about one-eighth inch long.

Next to it rises an even larger pile, about 25 feet high, representing the fate of all the fallen oaks, silver maples and London plane trees: wood chips.

So stock pile about 6 months worth of food and water.

Create tickets for each pile (about 20 for each).

Stack basil leaves, so that you have a pile about 5 leaves tall.

Cerberus piled about $20 billion of debt onto Chrysler, Mr. Gabbert said.

Prayer books are piled about, and there are many small stones placed on the monuments in tribute.

FAIRVIEW, W.Va. — The coal was piled about as high as it could go, spilling down to the railroad tracks and towering over the elevator shaft.

Detritus piled about three feet high — a mélange of crushed energy drink cans; bottles of water and, in at least one case, vodka; mounds of wrappers and paper cups; and what appeared to have once been a white T-shirt.

You can feel this in the wood-panelled wallpaper, in the aged flotsam strewn and piled about, and most of all in the notion that things of quality are meant to be fixed, repeatedly, even, rather than discarded and replaced.