How to Use pileup in a Sentence

pileup

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  • A five-car pileup slowed traffic.
  • Mullen reached in and appeared to take the ball away from Bandy before a pileup ensued.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Tour de France teams have asked fans to behave better after a mass pileup in the 15th stage.
    — USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
  • The studio may have been trying to avoid the pileup of scary movies on schedule around Halloween.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 31 July 2023
  • In Ohio, dozens of vehicles were involved in a pileup that killed at least 4.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The pileup of issues is a concern likely to prey on the minds of Twitter’s investors.
    — Wired, 12 July 2022
  • Be sure to start the day with an empty dishwasher so guests can load their own dishes to avoid a pileup in the sink.
    — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Aug. 2023
  • But in the film’s brisk screen progress, the pileup of left-field plot developments soon becomes overkill.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Photos and video of the slide showed a pileup of trees, dirt and debris that broke away from the steep slope above the road and crossed into the water below.
    — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2022
  • The pileup left 24 people injured, in addition to the six deaths.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Cruz’s injury, to his thumb, was fluky; McCloud’s leg was mangled in a pileup.
    — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Photos showed a black pickup truck on top of a massive pileup.
    — Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Later in the first, in a wild pileup in Craig Anderson’s crease, Dickinson somehow poked the puck into the net to put the Hawks on the board.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Photos posted on Twitter showed a black pickup on top of the pileup.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The largest pileup involved about 20 vehicles, the police agency said, and about 98 cars and trucks crashed in the area overall.
    — oregonlive, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Cliffs and tears, rips in the white blanket emerge, indicating a force that can toss city blocks of ice around like so many wrecked cars in a pileup.
    — Ted Scambos, The Conversation, 7 June 2022
  • Ten cars were involved in the pileup at Westpark Toll Road, just outside of Houston, the police said.
    — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • The pileup involved 17 cars and 18 big rigs, KABC reported.
    — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2024
  • Russian helicopters and drones swooped in and attacked the pileup.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • But tragically, the Swede was injured in a multicar pileup at the start of the race in Monza, and died overnight in the hospital.
    — Brad Spurgeon, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The pileup was just west of Hardin, with additional ambulances called in from Billings to help.
    — Stefanie Dazio, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2022
  • According to the report, an attack from two wolves led the sheep to panic and run into a steep gully, where many were crushed in the pileup.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
  • The Columbian reported Sunday that four people were involved in the pileup.
    — oregonlive, 1 June 2022
  • The road was already covered with snow prior to the squall and the pileup , making driving conditions even worse.
    — Cady Stanton, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • Four others were hurt in the six-car pileup, the Review-Journal reported.
    — Fox News, 4 Feb. 2022
  • One person died Tuesday morning in a 10-car pileup in south Austin, the city’s fire department said.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The telescope named for Edwin Hubble captures these cosmic pileups all the time.
    — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
  • People walking along the river could follow the pileup of logs wedged between the shore and driven into the riverbed for roughly an hour.
    — Adam M. Sowards, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2023
  • Later, both motifs sound against a pileup of dissonant chords, which is like a wall through which neither can pass.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Cars, cargo trucks, lorries and other vehicles can be seen in the pileup.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 28 Dec. 2022

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