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collect or gather
The work keeps piling up
Journals are accumulating in my office -
get or gather together
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She rolled up a small fortune
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis -
arrange into piles or stacks
She piled up her books in my living room
How To Use pile up In A Sentence
- As the terse replies pile up, I am on the point of suggesting that he looks weary, as though his dog has died, only for it to emerge that his dog has died.
- Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
- Post exam week tension is beginning to go away, but not the muscular pain from footy, and work is starting to pile up again.
- And, their cars and those big four-by-fours can pile up on your shop for repairs and maintenance.
- The layers of moral and political complexity pile up to quietly enthralling effect. Times, Sunday Times
- Storm clouds pile up above the sere plain, and in the foreground, a granite marker is etched with a mountain range, two pines and the words ‘Traveling Wolf, born 1878, died 1961.’
- But sometimes, after too many summer days, purple clouds pile up in the sky and a cool wind brings in the sweet-smelling scent of the frangipani flowers outside the window.
- Problems were beginning to pile up.
- With drivers pandering along at such slow speeds, it hardly surprising that pile ups occur when the margin for error is so small with vast tracts of traffic all moving in tightly knit convoys.
- Although grace superabounds where sin abounds, that is no reason why we should wilfully pile up the sin.
