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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were stacked up" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe items or objects that are arranged in a pile or stacked on top of each other.
Example: "The boxes were stacked up in the corner of the room, waiting to be unpacked."
Alternatives: "were piled up" or "were heaped up."
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Before its residents could return, bodies were stacked up like bales of hay along the tree-lined street.
The interviews were stacked up, one per half hour, and by mid-morning the schedule was a shambles.
Because garbage pickups were suspended, dozens of black garbage bags were stacked up high on the sidewalk outside the building along 45th Street.
More reproductions of these unlikely creatures were stacked up in many sizes and varieties: with internal lights, voices and various forms of transportation.
As French ferry company strikers lit fires and confronted riot police at the mouth of the Channel tunnel, hundreds of migrants attempted to break into lorries that were stacked up on the roads approaching the tunnel entrance.
It is cool back here and via backlit nooks you can see where 2,000 years ago the curving fragments of olive oil pots were stacked up to create the mass.
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One by one, circumstances were stacking up against the Dodgers.
At the time, Ms. Estrada told her problems were stacking up.
But though polls were favourable, there was no point in going if votes were "stacking up [just] in the north".
Prosecutors claim Adoboli began fraudulently trading in 2008 in order to hide the huge losses that were stacking up.
That really did change how things were stacking up.
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