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pileup

[ UK /pˈa‍ɪlʌp/ ]
[ US /ˈpaɪˌɫəp/ ]
NOUN
  1. multiple collisions of vehicles

How To Use pileup In A Sentence

  • Further, as a result of technological unemployment in agriculture, an increase of "pileup" in industrial employment has resulted. Postwar Toronto
  • Eleven cars were involved in a pileup on the motorway.
  • The head linesman signaled for the score, but was overruled by the official on the opposite side of the field, who had his view restricted by the pileup.
  • The pileup, which is under investigation, left nearly 100 people stranded in damaged and trapped cars, police said. Latest News - UPI.com
  • According to Rodriguez, this kind of pileup can lead to a host of unsavory health problems. Brownsville Herald :
  • The pileup is a consequence of other states 'frustration with the influence of the geographically balanced foursome -- Iowa and New Hampshire, and, more recently, South Carolina and Nevada -- whose early-voting status is blessed by party rules. Obama Closes In on Clinton
  • That musky pileup of alabaster limousines and poorly cut tuxedos and spangled evening bags fat with Ecstasy, all of it the blazing hot sunset of a long, hard childhood!
  • If you get an ashtray for yourself (ashing in glasses can become annoying and gross) or as a gift, opt for one with a revolving center, to avoid an ash pileup - eau de cigarette is no way to freshen up a room.
  • Sense is inevitably degenerating into nonsense, like a pileup of random mutations in an endangered species gasping its last breaths.
  • Stopping the car short caused a pileup on the highway.
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