How to use "heap" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "heap" in popular movie and book plots

  • They leave the noble woman naked down to her hips in a heap on the street.  - Utica (Rome)
  • At the end of the book, Doon manages to construct a simple electric circuit, based on a science book found in an old heap of books.  - The People of Sparks
  • He wakes and finds himself back in the desolate countryside, lying next to a heap of skulls under a gallows.  - The Saragossa Manuscript (film)
  • Keaton stares at the scene, places a 'For Sale' sign with the heap (attaching the building instructions) and walks off with Seely.  - One Week (1920 film)
  • Peter quickly wishes that he was boneless and collapses into a fleshy heap of jelly, scaring everyone on the bus.  - Family Guy Viewer Mail 1
  • (He claims it's for Jenny's own good, to save her "a heap of responsibility".  - The Wonder City of Oz
  • George collapses in a heap on the floor.  - Taboo (musical)
  • A few days later he revisits the street and finds the vault empty: "In place of the woman and children, a heap of quick-lime was glistening".  - Redburn
  • He races to the slag heap to find Jo surrounded by giant maggots, and they are both caught in an RAF bombing raid on the maggots.  - The Green Death
  • It is a huge trash heap where the remnants of a former civilization lie abandoned in great piles.  - In Watermelon Sugar
  • Exhausted by the effort, he falls out of the air, crashing in a heap on the floor of the Astrodome.  - Brewster McCloud
  • John Mason observes that a heap of bones there earlier is now gone.  - The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place
  • Then all found peace in a heap of livid dust".  - The Leopard
  • He arrives to find that the compost heap where he hid the Jewel of Judgment is gone.  - The Hand of Oberon
  • Hunter confesses to his angry fiancée Jenny that he finds himself at the top of the heap without any meaning and she takes him back.  - Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
  • He has carved "AMY JOLLY" inside a heart, covered by a heap of cigarette butts from his chain smoking.  - Morocco (film)

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