Sentence examples for pile slightly from inspiring English sources

Every grain you add makes the pile slightly steeper and slightly higher without moving any of the other grains inside the pile, until eventually one grain is added that causes an avalanche of sand down the sides of the pile, moving thousand of grains and changing the shape of the pile.

4: good, 3: decreased, 2: very decreased, 1: absent), faeces consistency (1: runny liquid, splatters spreads readily, 2: loose may pile slightly, splatters moderately, 3: soft firm, piles but spreads slightly, 4: dry hard, not distorted on impact [ 17]), and measuring rectal temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate.

But with each recovery, the pile shrinks slightly.

An hour later, that first batch was gone, replaced by another pile of slightly longer ones.

The cheese is tied in a leek, next to a pile of slightly charred crostini.

This 750-room pile, while slightly over the top in its zeal for Arts and Crafts design motifs, is a nut-brown comfort zone with one of the finer restaurants in the region, Napa Rose.

This is handy as I've already picked some rhubarb which I stumbled across, growing wild in the corner of my local park, but it's joined my growing pile of slightly suspicious-looking urban veg.

Numerical simulations show that p y curves based on the American Petroleum Institute (API) recommendations and that proposed by Reese et al. can reasonably predict the lateral response of the piles though slightly underestimate the ultimate capacities.

One simple way to judge the quality of a carpet is to fold it back slightly (pile side up).

While some folks with talent can get a good brewski out of a copper pot, a carboy, and a dream others like myself usually end up making something that smells like a compost pile and tastes slightly better than Coors Light strained through a shoe.

If your leaf pile has gotten slightly out of control, that's one thing, but a serious brush fire needs to be handled immediately by professionals.