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    1. Jim fell to the ground in a large heap


    2. A gardener’s compost heap is a process that is going on eternally in nature


    3. There are many different types of bacteria present in a compost heap depending on the time from the start of the pile


    4. ‘Yes, he tripped over and we all ended up in a heap on top of him


    5. his body was reduced to a heap of bones covered with skin with a huge


    6. I nodded my head, just barely, and he let me slide down the wall in a heap


    7. I had to climb over a heap of black bags full of clothing to get to the phone … Molly and I have been busy


    8. sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway


    9. their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” ( 2 Timothy 4:1-4)


    10. She had gone out in her cotton nightrobe, now discarded in a sodden heap at the base of the mast

    11. He’d even got as far as starting to turn out his belongings, sorting a great heap of garments, knickknacks and furnishings into black plastic bags already heaped in his car so he could drop them at the charity shop near his office during his lunch hour


    12. ’ Kara replied with a smile, casting a glance at the heap of her belongings … her bulging bag and the basket carrying flowers and produce that Issa had insisted she take with her


    13. I have a horrid feeling that if I try to dismount, I shall collapse in a heap


    14. He collapsed on the ground in a heap


    15. high above the dung heap, rotting vegetables


    16. And, still reeling from guilt, then I saw a couple of Gypsy women, suckling their babies as they themselves begged from a heap of rags with outstretched hands


    17. He heaves the bag downstairs and adds it to the pile of stuff by the front door - this heap is getting quite big


    18. I looked at the crumpled, pitiful heap lying there and took her up in my arms


    19. The girl went for the largest bug in a rage and sliced it to pieces before slumping to the ground in a heap, sobbing


    20. Hey, didn’t I see an ad for silk sheets somewhere in that heap of newspapers? That would be something out of the ordinary, and nice too

    21. ’ Alastair said, taking the heap of plates from her and putting them on the table


    22. He went down in a heap laughing and she whispered in his ear, “but not that well


    23. The man lay in a heap on the bulls neck, gasping


    24. The man fell in a heap as his final breath left his body


    25. We are supposed to file stuff as it comes in but that never happens; the heap is usually on the verge of falling over by the time it is dealt with


    26. I look up quickly from the heap of papers on my lap and smile at him


    27. By ten, with a neat heap of boxes stacked against the wall in the lounge, we survey the empty bookcase with satisfaction


    28. travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God


    29. The paper is in a heap at his slippered feet


    30. gotten out of it in a hurry; the blankets lay discarded across the foot-rest in a dishevelled heap

    31. ’ Billy pointed out as they struggled to heap up the seating out of the way in a corner


    32. He looked at his feet expecting them to do something then, without any warning, crumpled at the knees, collapsing in a heap at the feet of the policeman


    33. ’ Ozzie had said to the heap of sodden flesh and clothing now seeping foul water all over the bedroom floor


    34. Now where are those lists? They should be in that filing tray … What a heap of papers! Ah, bingo! Good old Caroline, in one of her moments of sheer genius, went and marked up all the class lists so that younger siblings are crossed out


    35. It takes nearly three quarters of an hour to finish the job what with phone calls and messages that have to be delivered to teachers, but, in the end, there’s a nice heap of neatly labelled newsletters ready to go out to the classes tomorrow


    36. It’s just as well that there was a great heap of dictation waiting for me … at least with that I didn’t have to think about what I was doing … not consciously … it’s odd how I can just transfer the words I hear through the headphones to my typing fingers without actually affecting the rest of my brain … meant that, while my fingers efficiently typed the words going into my ears, my mind was busy walking on the hills with Simon


    37. I’d busied myself putting the phone down and tidying one or two papers on the heap … trying very hard to behave as though it was a perfectly normal occurrence for me to have phone conversations with men arranging dinner dates … I failed


    38. Grief! What a great heap of luggage! ‘Ben, can you help take this lot up to the girls’ room, please?’ I asked as soon as my unsuspecting son materialised


    39. Troyes,' said Elizabeth, eager to heap praise upon her


    40. There in a heap of red carpet and flesh was what was left of my mother

    41. ’ He replied, sifting through the heap of music on the piano


    42. Mike waved a greeting as I dumped the heap of cables in the vicinity of the stage


    43. By my desk is a heap of files with a list of the work … that man really should get a life!


    44. After a couple months, and a titanic rubbish heap of silliness and inanity purged from my mind and heart, she at last said she would marry me


    45. Abandoning their clothes in a heap, the young serving girls leapt naked from the bed and went scurrying out of the room


    46. Brice saw the top of his head -- a heap of knotted gray hair


    47. Beside it, resting in a heap, the bundle of cloth was silent


    48. She raised her head to find a heap of melted rock smoldering where Whimly's rotting corpse once rested


    49. Then suddenly, the dirty gray and brown garment drifted to the earth, resting in a heap of folds next to the sprawled out body of Nathalia


    50. By the time the water tag game was over they were all winded and lay in the sun in a heap to rest














































    1. He ran over and quickly opened his closet, revealing piles of clothes heaped on top of each other in the middle of the floor


    2. By the time I hear Stephen’s car on the gravel outside the house, I have covered the whole of the carpet and heaped up the bits of furniture in a pile in one corner


    3. The two women gravitated towards the other side of the room where half a dozen semi-comfortable, rather scruffy chairs were grouped around a low table on which some tired-looking magazines had been heaped


    4. He’d even got as far as starting to turn out his belongings, sorting a great heap of garments, knickknacks and furnishings into black plastic bags already heaped in his car so he could drop them at the charity shop near his office during his lunch hour


    5. heaped on her, from the moment she walked in


    6. There are still some flagstones remaining round the edges and a pile of them heaped up haphazardly against the fence


    7. Ozzie was waiting in the bedroom; his dirty clothes heaped up in the corner


    8. Except for the birds, the only sound was the thud of the spades slicing the earth and the dull splat of the soil as it was heaped on the side


    9. What was she going to do? She’d kept a brave face for him, but inside she was heaped with fear


    10. friend, and silently heaped curses on the man who had

    11. And instead of the blessings that had formerly been heaped on the Sultan’s head, the air was now full of curses of unhappy parents


    12. Nathalia and the other elves heaped the last pieces of black armor into a pile, waiting as Tetloan raised his remaining arm to melt them with mage-fire


    13. It mattered not how much he reminded himself of the genuine praise heaped upon him by officers and fellow recruits alike for his surprising deftness with a blade - even two at once


    14. The floor of the crevasse was heaped with grey boulders and rocks of all shapes and sizes, all sprinkled with an accumulation of the lighter grey gravel


    15. I cleaned my rifle and then we returned to our own sector with the Fusiliers thanks ringing in our ears when we got there more congratulations were heaped on us and I was told how proud the Company and Battalion were of me


    16. He tidied up the bits of broken crockery and ornaments on the floor and heaped them on the table


    17. Cancun, where the beaches are wide and heaped with white sand


    18. On Christmas Eve Santa Claus came in his sledge heaped high with


    19. Invidious praise has been heaped on certain regiments; but equal credit is deserved by every officer and man participating in the assault


    20. Both held shovels heaped with coal

    21. As Frank lent over the counter, the receptionist looked up with a weary glance, her desk was heaped high with folders and assorted papers, and Frank wondered for a moment how far down the pile his notes were


    22. Somewhere in the back of his concentrated attention, he heard the praise, even if in the interrogatory, so joyously heaped upon the back and arms that strained so mightily for her


    23. Can nature stand much more than what we’ve heaped upon it already?


    24. i remember one incident that heaped a ton of pressure on me


    25. Great, velvety, purple clouds heaped up in the west and spread over the valley


    26. We had a nice visit while he reminisced about old times and heaped praise on my grandfather and the great Kaidu


    27. did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets


    28. Every man, woman, child, and animal would be killed and heaped in piles


    29. 19 While he was saying this, they heaped up fuel, and setting fire to it, strained him on the wheel still more


    30. 20 When you did see children's flesh heaped on children's flesh that had been torn off, heads decapitated on heads, dead falling on the

    31. Life heaped on life, expectation on expectation


    32. 8 And Joseph at that time had officers under him, and they collected all the food of the good years, and heaped corn year by year, and they placed it in the treasuries of Joseph


    33. 10 And Joseph did according to this year by year, and he heaped up corn like the sand of the sea for abundance, for his stores were immense and could not be numbered for abundance


    34. 17 And you, Joseph my son, forgive I pray you the prongs of your brothers and all their misdeeds in the injury that they heaped on you, for God intended it for so and your children's benefit


    35. heaped shame on themselves or their teachers


    36. 8 And Joseph at that time had officers under him and they collected all the food of the good years and heaped corn year by year and they placed it in the treasuries of Joseph


    37. 10 And Joseph did according to this year by year and he heaped up corn like the sand of the sea for abundance for his stores were immense and could not be numbered for abundance


    38. 17 And you Joseph my son forgive I pray you the prongs of your brothers and all their misdeeds in the injury that they heaped on you for God intended it for so and your children's benefit


    39. As Johnnie Babcock points out, extravagant praise and accolades were heaped on Pops over the years with seldom a negative word


    40. 4 And the festivals and the Sabbaths he established in their sanctity and their polluted ones he burnt in the fire and the lying prophets which deceived the people these also he burnt in the fire and the people who listened to them when they were living he cast them into the brook Kidron and heaped stones on them

    41. 19 While he was saying this they heaped up fuel and setting fire to it strained him on the wheel still more


    42. 19 Nor when you did see the eyes of each of them looking sternly on their tortures and their nostrils foreboding death did you weep! 20 When you did see children's flesh heaped on children's flesh that had been torn off heads decapitated on heads dead falling on the dead and a choir of children turned through torture into a burying ground you lamented not


    43. Lorna almost laughed when she saw the heaped plate


    44. looking down at the shapes that they made heaped together on


    45. While passengers got off and on, I helped the telegrapher pull the wagons heaped high with baggage and U


    46. I slurped down the soup while enjoying a whole pile of delicious cornbread heaped with


    47. Both began their careers as young prodigies, shooting up the ranks with medals and awards heaped upon them


    48. There were numerous sacks heaped against the walls, and a pile of round things in the middle of the floor


    49. " He reaches for a slider, heaped with mustard and onions


    50. From where she crouched behind a pile of old wooden crates, Bryony could see a mound of black stuff heaped in the trailer











































    1. ’ I commented, heaping roast potatoes into a dish


    2. I look round the cabin and slowly accumulate a pile of odd bits and pieces, heaping them up on the bunk so that Berndt can pack them


    3. It looked as though she got a boob job for the occasion, with those heaping


    4. “As good as everything else was, you could’ve given me a heaping bowl of


    5. Ed was eating a heaping portion of eggs and bacon


    6. Add a clove of garlic and a heaping teaspoon of chili powder


    7. Steep 1 heaping tsp in a cup of boiling water for 1 minute


    8. Esther was delighted with all, heaping on more mashed potato and gravy when required and followed by second helpings of bread and butter pudding


    9. Mother had packed turkey sandwiches, heaping with onions, lettuce and tomato, plus that fancy gray mustard


    10. Roll heaping teaspoons of chocolate mixture into balls, then roll in the chocolate sprinkles

    11. Quickly drop by heaping spoonful’s onto waxed paper or press into a 9x9 inch square pan lined with waxed paper


    12. Secondly, such intentions, in whatever manner their sentiments may be genuinely sincere, oftentimes fail to keep pace with popular expectations thereby heaping anger and resentment upon otherwise well-meaning individuals who may have fallen short of their intended purpose; that is to say, deliver their promises


    13. The only impression, other than kids and lovers, was predictably enough the food, huge, heaping mounds of it, big gobbly piles of it, eighty and hundred-metre tables of it, with ice sculptures and creamy pale linen


    14. The Chaldean method of attacking strong points is given as heaping up


    15. cup batter per pancake into the pan and top each pancake with a heaping tablespoon of the cooked apple


    16. With a heaping helping of trepidation, I approached the porch


    17. The waitress came back with heaping trays of food-cheeseburgers, fries, onion rings, and chocolate shakes


    18. After sharing half the packet of biscuits, finishing the water, scrabbling piles of bracken and grass together for a mattress and heaping a rough tepee with leaves, grass and anything else we vainly hoped would keep off cold and dew, we huddled down, hungry and thirsty, for a long night


    19. Where did I put that Parkay? Aahhh, I find it next to my stack of Hustler and Swank magazines and apply a heaping glob, proceeding to stroke vigorously while flipping through the pages


    20. Roll a heaping tablespoon of dough into a ball, about 1 1/2 inches in

    21. He poured me wine and dished out a heaping helping of Brunswick stew


    22. In the meantime Jesus was left in the audience chamber in the custody of the temple guards, who, with the servants of the high priest, amused themselves by heaping every sort of indignity upon the Son of Man


    23. There should be a heaping amount for a great pie!


    24. heaping bed sheets on his mattress and got to work on the


    25. shots from a 9mm equipped with a silencer into the heaping


    26. He took the spoon and lifted a heaping spoonful of the soup and brought it up to his mouth


    27. forked off heaping helpings of the deer steaks


    28. The research on ginger’s ability to reduce platelet stickiness indicates that 10 grams (approximately 1 heaping teaspoon) per day is the minimum necessary amount to be


    29. Despite her hunger, and despite her deprivation, she left the bakery quickly mentally heaping scorn on that evil beast


    30. Hence the manager flared up in anger and went to give the worker a severe beating, all the while heaping insults upon him

    31. Recalling Than and his sisters’ love of sugar, she added generous, heaping teaspoons to each of the cups except her own


    32. ” Everyone clapped as the waiters brought in heaping platters of antipasto, which included cold meats; prosciutto, ham, and hard salamis


    33. heaping all things into one place for their sanctified god-kings


    34. Why do you think he keeps heaping on charges and interest


    35. “So I heard you’re new to Valhara,” he said, scooping a heaping pile of potatoes onto his plate


    36. Dot placed a heaping bowl of spaghetti and meatballs in front of Jill


    37. Amy, who was fond of delicate fare, took a heaping spoonful, choked, hid her face in her napkin, and left the table precipitately


    38. "Buy the vases," whispered Amy to Laurie, as a final heaping of coals of fire on her enemy's head


    39. heaping portion of bread, but he thought that night could be different


    40. Descending into the grotto, he lifted the stone, filled his pockets with gems, put the box together as well and securely as he could, sprinkled fresh sand over the spot from which it had been taken, and then carefully trod down the earth to give it everywhere a uniform appearance; then, quitting the grotto, he replaced the stone, heaping on it broken masses of rocks and rough fragments of crumbling granite, filling the interstices with earth, into which he deftly inserted rapidly growing plants, such as the wild myrtle and flowering thorn, then carefully watering these new plantations, he scrupulously effaced every trace of footsteps, leaving the approach to the cavern as savage-looking and untrodden as he had found it

    41. Wopsle had in his hand the affecting tragedy of George Barnwell, in which he had that moment invested sixpence, with the view of heaping every word of it on the head of Pumblechook, with whom he was going to drink tea


    42. From twelve to two o'clock Danglars had remained in his study, unsealing his dispatches, and becoming more and more sad every minute, heaping figure upon figure, and receiving, among other visits, one from Major Cavalcanti, who, as stiff and exact as ever, presented himself precisely at the hour named the night before, to terminate his business with the banker


    43. A magnificent specimen of manhood he was truly augmented obviously by gifts of a high order, as compared with the other military supernumerary that is (who was just the usual everyday farewell, my gallant captain kind of an individual in the light dragoons, the 18th hussars to be accurate) and inflammable doubtless (the fallen leader, that is, not the other) in his own peculiar way which she of course, woman, quickly perceived as highly likely to carve his way to fame which he almost bid fair to do till the priests and ministers of the gospel as a whole, his erstwhile staunch adherents, and his beloved evicted tenants for whom he had done yeoman service in the rural parts of the country by taking up the cudgels on their behalf in a way that exceeded their most sanguine expectations, very effectually cooked his matrimonial goose, thereby heaping coals of fire on his head much in the same way as the fabled ass's kick


    44. The race had been suspended because of the war, but Phil revived it in his mind, spreading a blanket on the infield grass, heaping it with food, and watching the cars blur past


    45. He dipped the spoon into the sock and ladled out two heaping teaspoons of sugar into Louie’s cup


    46. But Konstantin Levin found it dull sitting and listening to him, especially when he knew that while he was away they would be carting dung onto the fields not ploughed ready for it, and heaping it all up anyhow; and would not screw the shares in the ploughs, but would let them come off and then say that the new ploughs were a silly invention, and there was nothing like the old Andreevna plough, and so on


    47. He made a beeline for the dining room, likely worried that he’d missed out on the food, then returned to the living room with a grin on his face and a plate heaping with some of everything


    48. At any moment the boys, looking up, expected the slain tower face, hands, numerals, guts, to groan, slide, and tumble in a grinding avalanche of brass intestines and iron meteor showers, down, down upon the lawn, heaping, rumbling, burying them in minutes, hours, years, and eternities


    49. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthenon, obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Genevieve hill


    50. She began with a good portion, but she liked it so much that she took another of the same size, and she was lamenting the fact that urbane etiquette did not permit her to help herself to a third, when she learned that she had just eaten, with unsuspected pleasure, two heaping plates of pureed eggplant








    1. God likes it when we are able to step above the heaps of problems


    2. The beach is empty except for a few gulls ferreting about in the heaps of seaweed dumped on the high tide line by the sea


    3. Somehow I doubt he will be any different in his home setting from how he is in the office, so the house is probably knee deep in heaps of stuff


    4. All his screens were fully rendered in pieces of plastic furniture piled in precarious heaps


    5. ’ The Sergeant ferreted around in the heaps of papers on the desk


    6. On it was a gray blanket that covered two heaps,


    7. tottering congregations that are built upon these trash heaps, but


    8. In the dining room, heaps of blankets, heavy weather coats, boots, gloves and other items of clothing and more candles


    9. ” Said one of the seated heaps


    10. They piled great heaps in their vats, creating enough weight to press the grapes below… But as I was saying, they loved my poetry and feted me throughout the night

    11. And the ancient machines would finally reach their breaking points after many minutes, collapsing into heaps upon the floor


    12. Several papers awaited him back inside the Keep, parchment lying in neat heaps upon one corner of the war room table


    13. The town was littered with fetish heaps, shrines, images, clay pans, bottles, and other symbolic fetish tokens, and many a sly kick was given by the Houssas to these charm pots


    14. The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it


    15. The bile rose in Grindel's throat as he glanced about the filthy charnel house, trying to ignore the heaps of bones and rotting carcasses laying in the dark corners


    16. Thus says The Lord to all those who call of themselves Christian, yet never cease from pushing out the lip against The Lord’s anointed: Your error is very grievous! Hold your tongue! Lest all I have spoken concerning the scoffer and the wicked come upon you, leaving your houses utterly devastated and your sanctuaries in ruinous heaps! For it shall surely be accounted to you, in accordance with your every idle word, says The Lord your God


    17. Yet you choose death! You have forsaken Me and forced My hand! The stink of your perversions fill My nostrils! Your murders stain My courts! The broken bodies of the innocent and the blameless are piled up in heaps, before My eyes!


    18. They were all gone, all disappeared, turned into heaps of stones


    19. It was fitted with heaps of extras, because it was used by the government to lay telephone lines in the remote areas


    20. Cassa wore a full length wet suit even in summer, and used heaps of sunscreen to protect him from turning as red as a beetroot

    21. Mountainous heaps of rocks rose up out of the ground


    22. They, and each of them, had heaps of common sense


    23. two heaps at the entering in of the gate until the morning


    24. should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps


    25. The pictures on the walls were crooked; the rugs were awry; the vases were full of faded flowers; the dust lay in heaps--literally in heaps


    26. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps


    27. tithe of holy things which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and laid them by heaps


    28. foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month


    29. 8 And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they


    30. 9 Then Hezekiah questioned with the priests and the Levites concerning the heaps

    31. And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant


    32. and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest


    33. saves heaps of money


    34. odour rising from the heaps of waste


    35. putrid air that rose from the heaps of waste infectious to breathe


    36. Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3


    37. evident on their lofty ledges, their bases cluttered with heaps of


    38. there iniquity in Gileade surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the


    39. Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest


    40. Whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes; even so also will I do to them that hear me not, says the Almighty Lord

    41. There were no furnishings, just some heaps of grass for beds


    42. the bodies that were throw abroad and them that he had burnt in the battle; for they had made heaps of them by the way where he


    43. The genie asked, as genies will, “What is your first wish?” The government worker thought about it for a second, then replied, “I would like to be rich!” So the genie granted him his wish, and poof the man was surrounded by piles of money rivaling the heaps of even Martha Stewart and Bill Gates


    44. As they passed by huge heaps of cans of Pepsi and bottles of rum, Roger pointed out the poverty that was all too apparent in the village and the drinking habits of the population


    45. 14 And they gathered them together on heaps: and the land stank


    46. 14 And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank


    47. 16 And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps on heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I killed a thousand men


    48. (Beth-el means House of God and Hai means heaps and ruins


    49. everywhere, either collected in heaps or pushed over along the


    50. 8 Woe be to you Assur you who hide the unrighteous in you! O you wicked people remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah; 9 Whose land lies in clods of pitch and heaps of ashes; even so also will I do to them that hear me not says the Almighty Lord














































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    Synonyms for "heap"

    bus heap jalopy agglomerate cumulation cumulus mound pile batch deal flock good deal great deal hatful lot mass mess mickle mint mountain muckle passel peck plenty pot quite a little raft sight slew spate stack tidy sum wad accumulate amass bank arrange dike accumulation agglomeration collection load cock bestow cast confer

    "heap" definitions

    a collection of objects laid on top of each other


    (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent


    a car that is old and unreliable


    bestow in large quantities


    arrange in stacks


    fill to overflow