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How to use heap in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adverb

Heap means a crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people. Example: “You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”

Examples of heap by meaning

nounA pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.

  • a heap of earth; a heap of stones

nounMemory that is dynamically allocated.

  • You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.

nounA dilapidated place or vehicle.

  • My first car was an old heap.
  • If he can get planning permission, old Stoker's going to take this heap off my hands in return for vast amounts of oof.1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5

nounA lot, a large amount.

  • Thanks a heap!

verbTo pile in a heap.

  • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.

verbTo supply in great quantity.

  • They heaped praise upon their newest hero.
  • Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3

More sentences with heap

  • The enormous pile of spaghetti landed on the floor in an amorphous heap.From the entry amorphous
  • When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.From the entry fine
  • One renders young people a disservice by heaping unearned rewards on them.From the entry disservice
  • The accident left the car a heap of twisted metal.From the entry leave
  • I found several good sticks in the brush heap.From the entry stick
  • Debugging this computer program involved walking the heap.From the entry walk
  • His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.From the entry outmoded
  • A scavenger picked through the rubbish heap.From the entry scavenger
  • Again the animal had bulldozed all of its bedding into a heap at one end of its cage.From the entry bulldoze
  • Having already dismissed the story as a heap of piffle, he cheerily advised the reporters to go for a run.From the entry cheerily
  • When they use dry sand, their castle flows into a heap even as they lift the bucket.2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 32. From the entry sandcastle
  • "The nice thing is that the biochar doesn't just sit there in a heap," she says.2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, in RAIL, number 999, page 35. From the entry regeneration
  • He made a gesture that incorporated the compost heap, the polytunnels, and the potting bench.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 24. From the entry polytunnel
  • Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205. From the entry fermenter
  • Consider the following: mína 'eye', mínalbili 'two eyes', mínarri 'eyes' and mínailyarranha 'heaps of eyes'.2020, Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, “Talknology in the Service of the Barngarla Language Reclamation”, in Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli…. From the entry superplural
  • Look: a heap of burnt huts, Ibrahim, openmouthed and lionhearted, leading his men across the rubbled field.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 155. From the entry rubbled
  • He evidently gets a heap too loose tongue if you offer him just a little civility.2019, Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne, Kate Meredith, Financier. From the entry carry corn
  • He stole heaps of cosmetics, bottles of vodka, and even a Halloween pump-kin once.2017, Charles St. Anthony, Impossibly Glamorous: How a Misfit from Kansas Became an Asian Sensation, Impossibly Glamorous Studios. From the entry Jack Sparrow
  • This year, apparently, the answer is a heaping helping of piecaken.2015 November 27, James Werrell, “Some combinations are best left apart”, in The Herald, volume 144, number 331, page 7A. From the entry piecaken
  • But it was only the noise of the black steam-engine coming in from the heaps.2014, Edward Carey, Foulsham (Iremonger; 2), Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry steam-engine
  • All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap.2012, Joseph Lewis French, Masterpieces of Mystery, page 218. From the entry all of a heap
  • You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.2007, Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, Frommer's Caribbean 2008, →ISBN, page 468. From the entry coco
  • The floor was uncemented, and heaps of dust rose in the air anytime a customer walked in.2006, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, “Mallam Sile”, in The Prophet of Zongo Street, Harper Collins, pages 149–50. From the entry uncemented
  • So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose!2002, Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie, Pineapple Press, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry nevermind
  • Heaps excited about it - I'm planning for a massive day.1998 February 13, David Farrar, “Re: Te Papanz.reg.wellington.general”, in nz.reg.wellington.general (Usenet). From the entry massive
  • In the corner next to the oven was a huge heap of black rags covering the couch.1998, Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily, W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), page 131. From the entry patchery
  • It was a way of connoting scads, heaps, plenitude and humongosity.1998 October 18, Michael T[yler] Kaufman, “A Billion, A Trillion, Whatever”, in The New York Times (section 4), New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry humongosity
  • If they cut a board wrong or mishammered a nail, the board went into the scrap heap.1996, Earl Proulx, Yankee Magazine's Make It Last, page 114. From the entry mishammer
  • He stared at the goldenware and the plates heaped with excellent food.1988, Greg Bear, “Sleepside Story”, in Tangents, Warner Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry goldenware
  • We drew into a halt: a few huts, a siding, some heaps of abandoned coal.1987, Sarah Lloyd, Chinese Characters: A Journey through China, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry baozi
  • Mix with the rice and egg and form into patties, using a heaping servingspoonful for each.1955 April 26, “Rice Favored In Hamburgers”, in Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, volume 56, number 84, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 21, column 3. From the entry servingspoonful
  • Along the wainscot lie heaps of bolsters and quilts, covered with old-fashioned chintzes.1937, Robert Byron, “Saoma”, in The Road to Oxiana. From the entry vignette

Meaning of heap

  1. noun A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.
  2. noun A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.
  3. noun A great number or large quantity of things.

Full definition of heap

Questions about heap in a sentence

How do you use heap in a sentence?
Heap is used as a noun, verb and adverb. For example: “You should move these structures from the stack to the heap to avoid a potential stack overflow.”
What is a short sentence with heap?
“Thanks a heap!”
What does heap mean?
Heap means a crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of people.

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