How to Use pile in in a Sentence

pile in

phrasal verb
Definition of pile innext
  • Clear your workspace: Put those piles in a box (for now).
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023
  • The sound of money piling in will drown out the haters.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2023
  • The previous night’s dishes were still piled in the sink and on the counter.
    — Peter C. Baker, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Psalm could be seen piled in the back on a bench seat with siblings Chicago, 5, and Saint, 7, and his cousins.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 8 May 2023
  • Police said the home was layered in filth, trash was piled in the kitchen, and the living room was filled with garbage.
    — Chris Ramirez, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023
  • Though a few of the older kids piled in together at the back of the bus, many of the younger children sat beside their mothers.
    — Freep.com, 9 June 2023
  • After shares of the healthcare heavyweight lagged all year, traders are piling in.
    — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 14 July 2023
  • In the cluttered house, cigarette butts are piled in an ashtray.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • In the morning, my wife and I took a saw to the water lines feeding the upstairs baseboard heaters and tossed them into a pile in the backyard.
    — Tik Root, Grist, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • More soil and waste was added to the pile in 2022 when that elementary school was expanded.
    — Michael Lee, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Crushed empties piled in trenches next to dead Russians.
    — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • Most of her belongings, including bags of clothes, an air fryer and a fan, were piled in the hallway.
    — Joanna Slater, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2023
  • The documents state that investigators later found signs of blood on the basement stairs, and a makeshift burn pile in the side yard of the home.
    — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 7 June 2024
  • Rose clung to a pier piling in the surging water as a lifeguard hurried over on his own board before helping him back to the beach.
    — Alastair Bland, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The videos keep coming: armed fighters taunting men with their hands tied behind their backs, bodies piled in an open grave.
    — Alexis Okeowo, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The sun’s morning rays stretched across the Egyptian desert and illuminated stones piled in front of the entrance to an ancient tomb.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The glass will be piled in the void to bring it to surface level, clearing the way for construction crews to repave the road relatively quickly.
    — Lisa Rein, Washington Post, 17 June 2023
  • Your child and their friends can pile in through the rounded door, unfurl the fabric door closure, and play space explorer to their hearts’ content.
    — Tanya Edwards, Parents, 25 Nov. 2023
  • The baguettes and boules, piled in a bakery window, do seem pointedly rubbery — the props of a Potemkin prosperity.
    — Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Luxury goods piled in the middle of the room, with invitations for attendees to pay for them?
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Resulting in a bottom line that as new miners pile in, new blocks are produced at reliably the same rate.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
  • With no food or water amid the 100-degree heat, thousands began fleeing the city — only to be killed by snipers, leaving bodies piled in the streets.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • If the shallows in your local water feature some rocks and vegetation, odds increase that the perch are piled in.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The young and old are piled in together -- pets fill the floor -- all with stories of life under Russian occupation.
    — Britt Clennett, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The diced avocado piled in a pale green mound atop the steaming bowl of soup won me over immediately.
    — Ellie Krieger, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • They were piled in a bowl on a table beside him in his apartment, which is reached via a cement stairwell littered with shattered glass.
    — Roger Cohen Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • Pieces of biscuit dough that are dunked in butter and rolled in cinnamon sugar before being piled in a muffin tin and baked.
    — Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
  • But Albom, eight volunteers and his wife Janine piled in anyway.
    — Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Netflix kind of invented this system of streaming and everyone else had to pile in, to the detriment of the previous system.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • When the Fab Five surprised them at their basically crumbling home, fruit flies were swarming, dishes were piled in the kitchen sink, and floorboards were coming loose.
    — Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 16 May 2023

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