Sentence examples similar to pile check from inspiring English sources

(a) Series of sheet-pile check dams with masonry aprons at Mount Usu, Japan.

The moisture content of each pile was checked every week and adjusted accordingly.

With individual contributions limited to $2,300, bundlers fuel the fund-raising of presidential campaigns by collecting piles of checks from wealthy acquaintances in a practice that critics say gives them excessive influence.

As he told me, what his wealth amounts to is a giant pile of "claim checks" on the world's resources, claim checks that are largely "worthless" to him but potentially valuable to others.

Ms. Julavits, a founding editor of The Believer, said someone at the magazine had dubbed Mr. Fingal's original, less coherent pile of fact-checking documents "The Monster".

The discharge lay about: along one row, a pile of cancelled checks from 1948 (drawn on the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company) and a supply of canvas Marine Corps ammo belts, satchels, and gaiters belonging to one T. R. Gilligan; along another, an orphaned pair of vinyl LPs — the Village People's "Live and Sleazy" (1979) and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's "Dancing in the Street" (1985).

The discharge lay about: along one row, a pile of cancelled checks from 1948 (drawn on the Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company) and a supply of canvas Marine Corps ammo belts, satchels, and gaiters belonging to one T. R. Gilligan; along another, an orphaned pair of vinyl LPs the Village People's "Live and Sleazy" (1979) and David Bowie and Mick Jagger's "Dancing in the Street" (1985).

In Washington, the facts too often don't hold a candle to a phalanx of industry lobbyists and a pile of campaign checks.

They see the word count pile up as we check in with each other, posting our word count totals.

Firefighters and other emergency personnel with flashlights climbed over the pile of rubble to check for possible casualties.

You have to let the tube equipment warm up for a half hour and check the pile of Teletype that has been layering up all night.