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Examples of heaps
heaps
They are non-venomous and the young hatch out from eggs, often in compost heaps.
From the malverngazette.co.uk
That's heaps, considering they don't provide any capital for mining investments.
From the guardian.co.uk
Heaps, a junior transfer from BYU, would prefer to keep his wife, Brooke, happy.
From the kansas.com
There are numerous mine buildings, former spoil heaps and iron and steel plants.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Despite a comeback on Wall Street, the heaps of toxic debt aren't going anywhere.
From the businessweek.com
Here we see a minimalist grid of boxes containing mysterious heaps of melted wax.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
Is it because actors get paid heaps of money for doing comparatively little work?
From the hecklerspray.com
Big musicals need large talented casts, big name singers and heaps of creativity.
From the nbr.co.nz
My children have generous heaps of toys bursting from all corners of their rooms.
From the sacbee.com
- Bestow in large quantities; "He heaped him with work"; "She heaped scorn upon him"
- Pile: a collection of objects laid on top of each other
- Batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
- Stack: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves"
- Bus: a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus"
- Fill to overflow; "heap the platter with potatoes"
- The Heap is the name of three fictional comic book muck-monsters, the original of which first appeared in Hillman Periodicals' Air Fighters #3 (Dec. 1942), during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. ...
- In abstract algebra, a heap (sometimes also called a groud) is a mathematical generalisation of a group. ...
