Sentence examples for piling it on from inspiring English sources

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If it all sounds horribly icky, "Frequency" gets away with much of its sentimentality simply by piling it on so aggressively.

"If it all sounds horribly icky," Stephen Holden wrote in The New York Times, " 'Frequency' gets away with much of its sentimentality simply by piling it on so aggressively".

Given her penchant for piling it on, a white shirtdress is "the perfect canvas," she said.

I've taken to the mascara glop idea and have been piling it on in my everyday life too.

An entire chapter is devoted to "three species of Goulding" – deconstructing Gould's writing style as "rathering, piling it on, and the Gould two-step".

The paint is cheap, relatively easy to use (compared to oil, say), and is at the mercy of a 'less is more' principle as far as piling it on goes.

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For the other one, wrap it inside a towel and pile it on top of your head.

I pile it on, especially the verbals.

"You can pile it on," she said.

Did the Germans pile it on?

The Braves started to pile it on in the next two innings.

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