Sentence examples for piles of mud from inspiring English sources

Mound nests, made on land, are also often simple piles of mud, leaves or rocks.

More than 3,700 are now homeless, their houses reduced to piles of mud and debris.

Workers in the disaster zones then faced widespread seas of destruction: vast areas, even whole towns and cities, had been washed away or covered by great piles of mud and debris.

The city is also considering reducing the use of earth-moving equipment, again to try to make sure that bodies or body parts are not accidentally lifted into dump trucks along with piles of mud, concrete and steel.

One year from the Games, however, Sochi is a massive construction site, with huge piles of mud and rubble competing for space with endless lines of lorries ferrying rubbish and materials to and fro.

One year on, they are still working through the piles of mud left by the tsunami, still searching for bodies.

Volunteer crews and government workers fanned out through the streets and picked through the debris, and snowplows created forlorn monuments to people's personal lives (piles of mud-spattered gym equipment, baby cradles, a broken cello, an upright piano).

That's a prodigious pile of mud.

A pile of mud and stones is a concealed mortar.

In June, parts of the city were dug up into one heaving pile of mud.

And Chief Allee said they found a "pile of mud" that turned out to be an American flag.