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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
- Problems pile up but important Ministers are content to keep their date with rhetoric.
- The work has a tendency to pile up if I'm not careful.
- The reason it gest so bad is most of these operations either pile up the waste for drying or composting. POO POWER: Giant Vat of Crap to Produce Natural Gas for CA | Inhabitat
- Three people were hurt in a 12-car pile up on a fog-bound motorway yesterday.
- On the other hand, conditions may worsen or sand pile up in select spots where natural or manmade structures, such as jetties or sea walls, have left sections of beach more prone to erosion, said coastal engineer Dean. ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community
- Floral tributes and notes began to pile up yesterday by a tree where the car struck. Times, Sunday Times
- With no collection system, mountains of empty plastic bottles pile up in sand dunes behind its white sand beaches.
- The roads stopped being sprinkled at sunset, the buildings ceased to receive their annual whitewash, the gardens decayed, and litter and dirt began to pile up unswept on the pavements.
- He was brought down in a shocking pile up at Cheltenham last week and needs to prove he has recovered from that hairy moment. The Sun
- Her school meant that "responsibilities around the house pile up; housework is so much work. Divergent Realities: the Emotional Lives of Mothers, Fathers, and Adolescents
