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Example sentences for "heaps"

Lexicographically close words:
heape; heaped; heapes; heapeth; heaping; heapt; hear; hearb; hearbe; hearbes
  1. Heaps of pumice stone was noticed upon this beach; not any of this production had been met with floating.

  2. The floor of the cavern was covered with heaps of water-worn fragments of quartzoze rock containing copper pyrites, in some of which the cavities were covered by a deposit of greenish calcedony.

  3. I could have given you heaps of lights, and you might even have sacrificed another scrap of that precious manuscript.

  4. He rose and laid out heaps of muddled manuscript--opera disjecta--and turned their pages.

  5. The stench of putrid vegetable matter arising from these heaps must be highly deleterious.

  6. The heaps of vegetable putridity upon the banks of rivers, when a swollen torrent has torn the luxuriant plants from the loosened soil, are but the effects of a few hours' change.

  7. The wire entanglement was pretty well blown to pieces, curled up and rolled into heaps which were knocked right over the trenches, and sometimes into them, where it entangled our own men, and gave them much trouble.

  8. At each successive assault the Germans mounted the heaps of corpses to get at our men and, falling on their comrades, caused the slain to lie in heaps and ridges in an extraordinary and dreadful way.

  9. In the morning we found nearly a hundred bodies scattered about, and lying in two heaps in what appeared to have been the garden and orchard of the farm: but the place was completely wrecked.

  10. A pretty good sprinkling of bodies was left on the road Novogeorgevsk; and when the artillery got a chance they added heaps to the sprinkling.

  11. Before the men could drop them and unsling their rifles they were heaps of corpses.

  12. One or two were groaning under heaps of their slain comrades: we released these, and dressed their wounds.

  13. Outside the trenches there lay heaps of dead bodies, six or seven deep, and innumerable scattered dead and wounded.

  14. In some spots the dead and the dying were lying in heaps eight or nine deep.

  15. Yet too many trees have been neglected and now look like brush heaps instead of fruit trees.

  16. But the shower continued fast--fast; its heaps rose high and suffocatingly--deathly vapors steamed from them.

  17. Here, in seven stalls on one side the colonnade, sat the money-changers, with their glittering heaps before them, and merchants and seamen in various costumes crowding round their stalls.

  18. On the rest-bench lay my brother, Lay outstretched before the fire-place, Heaps of soot upon his shoulders, Heaps of ashes on his forehead.

  19. A receptacle in which to burn offerings of sweet woods and gums; it is made of a stick of bamboo about three feet long, one end being split and opened out to receive the charcoal; it is stuck in the ground near races and heaps of tin sand.

  20. We were now on the upper pasturages, a wide desolate tract merging into the rocky heaps which fringe several small glaciers descending from the highest summits.

  21. The hoary gables of the old Abbey stood out bold and clear, and the crumbling walls and shapeless heaps of stone, and the all-pervading ivy were to be seen almost as clearly as by day.

  22. And when he came in sight of the Treasure Valley, behold, a river, like the Golden River, was springing from a new cleft of the rocks above it and was flowing in innumerable streams among the dry heaps of red sand.

  23. Michael in his turn went up the stairs to Mr. Ardle's room, knocked at the door and passed in at the don's bidding to where he sat sighing amid heaps of papers and statistical sheets.

  24. These heaps of rubbish and roses would have made the fortune of a sketcher; but I imagine the snakes have it all to themselves here, and are undisturbed by camp stools, white umbrellas, and ejaculatory young ladies.

  25. But instead of being all carried to some specified place out of the way, these great heaps of oyster shells are allowed to be piled up anywhere and everywhere, forming the most unsightly obstructions in every direction.

  26. Bran promised me that the people should not be allowed to encumber the paths and the front of their houses with unsightly and untidy heaps of oyster shells.

  27. They then laid down to sleep with clear consciences, on their own somewhat diminished heaps of straw.

  28. The heaps were then set on fire, and the place which a few hours before presented so formidable an appearance, was utterly destroyed.

  29. Our beds were only heaps of straw, with bits of sacking on the top; there was no table, and only some rough benches to sit on.

  30. Four, in the meantime, had walked up to the corner where they expected to find the other prisoners; their astonishment was very great when they found instead only some heaps of straw.

  31. And at a little distance off, on the breast of the black-robed headless corpse that remained totally uncrushed in an open space by itself, among the surrounding heaps of slain and wounded, glistened the CROSS like a fiery gem, .

  32. One thing, Ted, that's going to save you heaps of trouble if you can only get it firmly fixed in that head of yours, is that you can't get anywhere or anything without WORK.

  33. The man who heaps millions together, and masses it, fails in life, however a vulgar world and a nominal church may admire and glorify him.

  34. The battle raged as fiercely as ever; both Chilians and Araucanos fought upon heaps of carcases.

  35. The three men had the courage to lift and examine heaps of carcases; but all without success, they could not find the body of their friend.

  36. Heaps of small splinters, and highly comminuted, yet angular fragments of bone, mixed with teeth of all the varieties of animals above enumerated, lay in the bottom of the den, occasionally adhering together by calcareous cement.

  37. Hugh and Maggie and I have got heaps of fun in our heads.

  38. Specimens enough have been taken out of the county to metal a turnpike road, and yet the scientific stone-man comes and tumbles over the refuse-heaps once again, and chips little bits on his own account, and carries them off.

  39. And presently the demonstration is completed, when at His bidding the tempest heaps up the sea, and at His frown the waters return to their strength again.

  40. Then we had to stumble over heaps of dead and wounded, and the Pandours went pell-mell down the vineyard, leaping over a wall one after another into the plain.

  41. The fire-wood lies in heaps round the smouldering watch-fires, and the citizen may find there the planks of his waggon and the doors of his barn.

  42. Nature herself, by her heaps of vegetation, had foreshown the immense productiveness of the soil.

  43. The settlers burned many by piling heaps of logs and brush on them, others by boring holes far into the wood and setting fire, while some were rent by charges of powder when it could be afforded.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heaps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    batch; deal; heap; lot; mess; mint; mountain; oodles; pack; peck; pile; plenty; pot; raft; scads; sight; slew; spate; stack; wad