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• We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.From the entry work
• OK, OK, they've already gotten the constructive criticism. Now you're just piling on.From the entry pile on
• They were piling up wood on the wheelbarrow.From the entry pile
• The generation of an Alpine mountain range is a matter of piling on the nappes.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 96. From the entry nappe
• Lyness' built-up pilings were not high enough to keep the ground floor above water during this flood.2003, Roselynn Ederer, Saginaw County, Michigan. From the entry built-up
• "But it's not much good piling up the pix if I can't sell them."1980, Iris Murdoch, Nuns And Soldiers. From the entry pix
• The piling may, however, be either the normal piling of Prof.1905 January 12, J. H. Jeans, “The Kinematics and Dynamics of a Granular Medium in Normal Piling”, in Proceedings of the London…. From the entry antinormal
• Contractor Balfour Beatty is working around the clock to repair the structure, with a piling rig brought from Inverness.2023 May 31, Paul Clifton, “Network News: NR removes unsafe abutment from Nuneham viaduct”, in RAIL, number 984, page 26. From the entry piling rig
• “The genie is out of the bottle and the issues the public needs resolved are piling up without resolution.”2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York…. From the entry the genie is out of the bottle
• Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist.2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70. From the entry about
• Piling on: Players may not pile on a runner after the ball is dead or intentionally fall upon any prostrate player.2009, Human Kinetics with Thomas Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book - 3rd Edition, Human Kinetics, →ISBN, page 116. From the entry pile on
• Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.2006, Lisa Selvidge, The Trials of Tricia Blake, page 9. From the entry beamful
• The physical nature and engineering properties of the sleech have made it desirable to investigate each site before piling.1970, Manning, P. I., Geology of Belfast and the Lagan Valley, H.M. Stationery Off., page 147. From the entry sleech
• A training wall of steel-sheet piling driven down 25 ft. now forms the other side of the mill lade.1950 January, “Re-Opening of the Eyemouth Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 11. From the entry training wall
• We are piling up munitions now faster than you.1917, H.G. Wells, War and the Future. From the entry outgun
• Reynolds, or the antinormal piling described by Prof.1905 January 12, J. H. Jeans, “The Kinematics and Dynamics of a Granular Medium in Normal Piling”, in Proceedings of the London…. From the entry antinormal
• He'd bring me a Maccies in the car, too, which was sweet of him, but it's also the reason I started piling on the weight.2015, Holly Hagan, Holly Hagan - Not Quite A Geordie, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry Maccies
• Unlike other farms, theirs exists in a dim, tidal underworld: barnacle- and starfish-covered pilings hold up a few narrow wooden plankways for the abalone harvesters.2009 August 2, Christine Muhlke, “Kelp Wanted”, in New York Times. From the entry plankway
• The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish.2007 August 22, Ellen Barry, James Estrin, “Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs”, in New York Times. From the entry tautog
• In about an hour the bottom's going to fall out." The clouds were piling up now and the breeze had moved round to the south.1979, The Blood of Paradise, page 204. From the entry bottom falls out
• They were not a band of rebellious “fraggers” assassinating their officers or marauding killers piling up body counts of the innocent in a haze of marijuana smoke.2017 April 11, James Wright, “The Baby Boomer War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry fragger
• The first of these would be a big Canadian breakfast of pancakes with smoked bacon and maple syrup, which we’d gobble down before piling out of the house.2012 January 8, Helen McCrory, “My Perfect Sunday: Helen McCrory”, in Tony Gallagher, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media…. From the entry gobble down
• Sarah's got an old preserving pan from the Salvos and the two of them scrub it for hours before piling in pounds of fruitflesh and spices.1995, Gillian E. Hanscombe, Figments of a Murder, page 87. From the entry fruitflesh
• Considerable trouble was experienced initially in getting it to work, and it was not until the piling was almost complete that the idiosyncracies of the machine were really understood.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866. From the entry idiosyncracy
• During the partial line closure, engineers installed sheet piling to act as a retaining wall to support the embankment and road, and make it safe to carry out long-term repairs.2023 March 8, “Network News: Section of Cotswold Line reopens after landslip”, in RAIL, page 25. From the entry sheet piling

Meaning of piling

1. noun A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
2. noun The act of heaping up.
3. noun The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.

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How do you use piling in a sentence?

Piling is used as a noun. For example: “We don't have much time. Let's get to work piling up those sandbags.”

What is a short sentence with piling?

“Reynolds, or the antinormal piling described by Prof.”

What does piling mean?

Piling means a structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.