huge pile

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeandpile

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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pile
noun
uk
/paɪl/us
/paɪl/
objects positioned one on top ...
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(Definition ofhugeandpilefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhuge pile

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There was ahugepileof receipts.
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Ahugepileof letters from suffering correspondents suggests that this is rife.
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We saw ahugepileof wood, consisting of parts of aeroplanes, and we asked what was happening to it.
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Do they think that the doctors and nurses working in the charities make ahugepileof money?
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The building up of ahugepileof debts is an abomination amongst the working people of this country.
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There will be the financial, political, and social objections that are entrenched behind thishugepileof debt that is now mounting up.
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It will hold recovery back, through lack of investment and through thehugepileof new taxes and tax increases that it imposes.
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It may be that we do not have ahugepileof surplus calves five years or even two or three years from now.
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I note in the documents that we are discussing—there is ahugepile—little about specific action to reduce export refunds.
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His garden thrives despite his dismantling of severalhugepilebunkers that subdue tectonic movements.
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He then found a worn-out smoke detector at the bottom of ahugepilein his studio.
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The book's cover features a photograph of a young boy sitting at a breakfast table with ahugepileof pancakes.
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