Heap Sentence Examples

She wilted to a heap and fell to the floor.

Jule had moved and collapsed in a heap a few feet away.

Sitting silent and motionless on a heap of straw against the wall, Pierre sometimes opened and sometimes closed his eyes.

Given what he's hearing and seeing now, it makes a heap of sense.

The cardboard boxes can be recycled or added to your compost heap.

She lowered it to the ground, dropping it in a heap.

He dropped her finally, and she landed in a heap.

Sasha.s guard fell quickly, and Jade hacked at the Ancient with all his fury until Sasha lay in a bloodied heap.

From the start of your organic garden, begin a compost heap.

I feel like I'm the scrap heap at 41.

Belfair watched, a sneering smile painted on her beautiful face, revenge was hers, as Jership the Terrible crashed in a bloody heap on the rocks below.

He was sure by now it was a brown tangle, ready for the trash heap.

Geomorphology is concerned, however, in the suggestions which have been made as to the cause of the distribution of heap and hollow in the larger features of the crust.

In building up the heap a number of narrow vertical passages are left to afford a draught for the fire.

The meaning of the name may be "the stone heap"; but it is not necessarily a Hebrew word.

The liquid litharge when allowed to cool solidifies into a hard stone-like mass, which, however, when left to itself, soon crumbles up into a heap of resplendent dark yellow scales known as "flake litharge."

It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap.

Nekhtharheb built the temple of Behbt, now a ruinous heap of immense blocks of granite.

In the present day the old city has almost entirely disappeared, and its site is marked only by a heap of ruins; but in remote antiquity Ajodhya was one of the largest and most magnificent of Indian cities.

The washed-out calcium carbonate, which always contains much calcium hydrate and 2 or 3% of soda in various forms, usually goes back to the black-ash furnaces, but it cannot be always used up in this way, and what remains is thrown upon a heap outside the works.

These lots are put in a heap, and an outsider is called in who throws one lot or kaivel upon each heap of fish.

Each fisherman then finds his kaivel, and the heap on which it lies is his.

Crag, a heap or barrow - Crag Mawr, Trichrug.

The web arrangement consists of a series the high over-feedboard, and the taking-off apparatus is automatic but on a different plan from that of the ordinary Wharfedale, the sheets being carried over tapes with the freshly-printed side uppermost, thus preventing smearing; they are then carried on to the heap or pile by the frame or long arms placed at the end of the machine.

A wooden frame-work often surrounds the heap of tiles to prevent them being scattered by the waves.

To the primitive nomadic Semite the presence of the divinity was indicated by springs, shady trees, remarkable rocks and other landmarks; and from this earliest conception grew the theory that a numen might be induced to take up an abode in an artificial heap of stones, or a pillar set upright for the purpose.

The place is now a desolate heap of ruins, with remains of its walls and fragments of granite pillars.

Until 1820 it was subject to Bokhara, but in that year Mahmud Khan besieged it for four months, took it by storm and left it a heap of ruins.

Thus at the end of the 5th century the Roman empire was nothing but a heap of ruins, and fidelity to the empire was now only maintained by the Catholic Church; she alone The clergy survived, as rich, as much honored as ever, and more and the powerful, owing to the disappearance of the imperial barbarofficials for whom she had found substitutes, and the tans.

In iron-smelting the ore is laid in a heap upon the fuel (charcoal) filling up the hearth, and is gradually brought to the metallic state by the reducing action of the carbon monoxide formed at the tuyere.

Together we might peruse some of the more notable entries submitted to that inane contest in case a gem lays molding in the rubble heap of stupid begging missives from fantasying idiots.

The vampire landed in a heap at his feet, whimpering.

The tree deposited Deidre and Toby in a heap, and Toby sprung up, pleased with himself.  Katie looked at the tree in uneasy mistrust.  The trees of her world were alive, but this was something else.

Layers of comfrey can be placed on the compost heap from time to time to act as a compost accelerant.

And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap.

Rev Dr. Nicholas Heap, catholic chaplain to the college, accompanied the pupils to the ceremony.

Here the gleam of the miner's lamp outshines the little coltsfoot that grows tenaciously on the spoil heap.

Before they knew it there was an almighty crash, and the lot of them lay in a heap on the pavement.

This means both the heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap of dung and the coarse grasses that grow from that heap.

Within 48 hours, the printing presses of the newspaper lay in a twisted, tangled heap, destroyed by anti-tank explosives.

I'd sell the yellow one first if someone really wanted it and didn't want the rusty heap to go with it.

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Dump of iron-rich material - a small heap of low grade iron ores, including a few nodules of coal Measure ironstone.

Scrap Heap Challenge Build a tank transporter using household junk to transport one, two or three model tanks.

All the known deposits in the county were visited, sampled and tested for their reaction to our heap leach process.

When drawn from the heap the boy was chewing a mouthful of popcorn and both his hands were full of it.

The men who carved the spoons were not the landed gentry, and what ever Sweet sayings include " A Heap of Love " .

The sections created by the quarrying enabled us to inspect and record the stratigraphy of the heap.

A classic punk band who made at least three classic singles and a heap of good punk toons.

The pixel bestiary commences an instinctive dance to the throb and pulse of the quivering heap as a state of wild transfiguration is achieved.

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Round and round until he flops in a messy heap, giving a new meaning to the word crushed velour.

Consign spent annual bedding plants to the compost heap and plant wallflowers, forget-me-nots and other spring flowerers in their place.

I even spotted a jenny wren on the compost heap.

It may be produced by placing quantities of horse-dung saturated with the urine of horses, especially of stud horses, with alternate layers of rich earth, and covering the whole with straw, to exclude rain and air; the spawn commonly appears in the heap in about two months afterwards.

Even now he would listen to no offers of compromise, and after defending Stralsund with desperate courage till it was a mere rubbish heap, returned to Sweden after an absence of 14 years.

His belongings, found piled up near the mine, seem to have included a combined bow-case and quiver and a sword sheath, each covered with plates of gold of Greek work, three swords with gold hafts, a hone with gold mounting, a whip, many other gold plates and a heap of arrow-heads.

At last when reduced to a heap of ruins, Ostend fell before the resolution of Ambrosio de Spinola, a Genoese banker, to whom the command of the besiegers had been entrusted (see Spinola).

It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap.

He gazed into the cellar from all sides and points of view by turns, always lying down to it, as if there was some treasure, which he remembered, concealed between the stones, where there was absolutely nothing but a heap of bricks and ashes.

In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses.

Why do you think I pressed the blasted SEND button, you quivering heap of incandescently imbecilic IT idiocy?

Peasant woman scavenging for usable fuel on a state-owned coal mine slag heap that over-shadows her village.

It is also a good idea to add some layers of scrunched up paper or cardboard to allow air in to the compost heap.

The men who carved the spoons were not the landed gentry, and what ever Sweet sayings include " A Heap of Love ".

We then joined the supernumerary members of the expedition on an adjacent slag heap, over which the UFO was said to have hovered.

For a long time he was certain I was headed for the trash heap.

Symonds staggered back and fell in an ungainly, unconscious heap on the floor.

The big change arrives on matchday itself, which is where CM5 crumpled in an untidy heap on the turf.

At Weobley, in Hereford and Worcester, a kiln waster heap has been partially excavated.

Moisture in the compost heap should be similar to a wrung out sponge.

High chair photos - Don't forget to get your camera out when baby is eating a nice helping of pureed green beans or spoon-feeding himself a heap of mashed potatoes.

Sometimes unwary buyers get stuck paying for a heap that dies before the note is paid.

Fill the new pot with potting soil, make a dent for the plant to go in, and place the plant in the pot, being careful to cover all the roots but not heap soil on the stem of the plant.

Of course, if you prefer, you can purchase pre-made composting bins from most any garden supply store to house your compost heap.

If you decide to use an open container or heap for your compost, scent might also become an issue, so be considerate of your neighbors.

Look for the word compostable right on the front of the box to avoid having plastic build up in your compost heap.

Heap pasta into bowls, then place a large scoopful of broccoli, shrimp, and pan juices over the top.

Her rise to the top of the modeling heap was not without challenges, including surgical steps that made her stand out from the crowd.

A heap of cinders or half-rotten leaves laid over the crowns in winter will ensure their safety; or the roots may be lifted in autumn and wintered in any dry cellar.

Its pale green foliage goes well with any flower, and it may be grown against a sunny wall, where, if protected by a heap of ashes over its roots and a warm straw mat over its branches, it will pass through the winter safely.

This will keep the heap from spreading too much and looking unsightly.

They are the perfect nitrogen rich addition to your compost pile, assuming you allow them to dry for a day or so before adding them to the heap.

Keep your compost heap in mind when you're preparing and eating your meals.

Just be sure to never put meat scraps, dairy items, and most other animal produced substances in the compost heap.

You can create the best environment for them by considering your compost heap, where it is, and the substances you put in there.

You have to bring your team (resembling the Packers of this year) from the bottom of the heap to the top by winning the Division 1 championship (out of 3 divisions).

Like Emma Watson, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Carrie Fisher, Hayden Panettiere has leaped to the top of the "obsessed about" heap thanks to her work in science fiction and fantasy.

As drones are destroyed in the game, they are taken to the scrap heap.

Because he knows your resume isn't worthy of that spacious four-hundred dollar heap of Tuscan leather.

Creativity is what sets your plan above the rest on the heap.

On the other hand, the effects participation have on contestants are two-fold; some individuals go on to great success while others find that the same success goes to their heads and lands them in a heap of trouble.

Before you toss coffee grounds onto the compost heap, mix a quarter-cup of grounds with an egg white and massage it onto your face.

Arnie's weight dropped, and Lana and Brady landed in a heap.

Eastward of the present city, amongst the mounds and ruins of the old town, in a dilapidated chamber adjoining a bluedomed building over the grave of an imamzadeh, is the tomb of the astronomer-poet Omar Khayyam, an unsightly heap of plaster without inscription, and probably fictitious.

After being pared off the turf is allowed to dry for a fortnight or so and is then placed in small heaps a yard or two wide at the base, a little straw or wood being put in the middle of each heap, which is then lighted.

Every care should be taken to burn and char the sod thoroughly without permitting the heap to blaze.

Where the trade-winds heap up the surface water against the east coasts of the continents the currents turn poleward.

The best argument in its favour is the improbability of anybody having taken the trouble to forge so bald and awkward a heap of details.

The Latin stipendium (for stipipendium) is derived from slips, a gift, contribution (originally a heap of coins, stipare, to press; mass together) and pendere, to weigh out, pay.

It is prepared (where wood is plentiful) by stacking the wood in heaps, which are covered with earth or with brushwood and turf, and then burning the heap slowly in a limited supply of air.

Out of the materials of the ancient city the Turks built a fort, which at the time of the French occupation was itself a heap of ruins.

The willows are cut at the first indication of the sap rising and "couched" in rotten peelings and soil at a slight angle, the butts being on the ground, which should be strewn with damp straw from a manure heap. The tops are covered lightly with rotted peelings and by periodical application of water, fermentation is induced at the bottom, heat is engendered, the leaves force their way through the covering and peeling may begin.

The urine should be allowed to putrefy, as in its decomposition a large amount of ammonia is formed, which should then be fixed by sulphuric acid or gypsum; or it may be applied to the growing crops after being freely diluted with water or absorbed in a compost heap. Liquid manures can be readily made from most of the solid manures when required, simply by admixture with water.

We have no idea who the disciple may have been who thus seized upon the sadder elements of the teaching of Jesus; but we may well think of him as one of those who were living in Palestine in the dark and threatening years of internecine strife, when the Roman eagles were gathering round their prey, and the first thunder was muttering of the storm which was to leave Jerusalem a heap of stones.

For since they now heap up wealth and enrich nephews removed from them by almost incalculable degrees of affinity, what would they do if they had legitimate children?.

Thus it came about that, only a few years after he had commenced to free the country from the weight of the loans and taxes which crushed her to the dust, Colbert was forced to heap upon her a new load of loans and taxes more heavy than the last.

Stall and heap roasting require considerable time, and can only be economically employed when the loss of the sulphur is of no consequence; they also occupy much space, but they have the advantage of requiring little fuel and handling.

Heap roasting has been successfully employed at Agordo, in the Venetian Alps, and at Majdanpek in Servia.

Heap, stall or shaft furnace roasting is not very satisfactory, as it is very difficult to transform all the sulphide into oxide.

The heaps are moistened with ferric chloride solution, and the reaction is maintained by the liquid percolating through the heap. The liquid is run off at the base of the heaps into the precipitating tanks, where the copper is thrown down by means of metallic iron.

With pyritic smelting a sulphuretted copper ore, fed into a cupola in the morning, can be passed directly to the converter, blown up to metal, and shipped as 99% bars by evening - an operation which formerly, with heap roasting of the ore and repeated roasting of the mattes in stalls, would have occupied not less than four months.

The wall by which Sidon is at present surrounded is pierced by two gates; at the southern angle, upon a heap of rubbish, stand the remains of the citadel.

Flowers of sulphur plentifully sprinkled over the potatoes before storing has been found to check the spread of the rot in the heap.

His pride was hurt, but for two years more there was no open breach between him and his master, though their estrangement grew more and more marked when Edward continued to heap titles and estates on his wifes numerous relatives, and to conclude for them marriage alliances with all the great Yorkist families B h who were not of the Neville connection.

Below K the fuel is lying in a conical heap, leaving the ring channel A free.

Wheat growing on an old manure heap is nearly always badly diseased.

Someone had dumped her into a heap in her cell, and she felt Lankha's cool, fuzzy hands.

Many people are not sure whether to have an open heap or a home composting bin.

Finish it off with a small heap of wilted Swiss chard on each pastry.

Why, then, are people queuing up to heap derision upon the hapless chavs?

Even the eminently employable are left on the scrap heap.

Now he lay in a tangled heap amid the main halyard.

To the left you can see the haulm over the compost heap.

Infected potato haulms (foliage) may be composted in a good active heap.

They walk, the run, they fire guns, they fall to the floor in a crumpled heap.

She lay in an untidy heap, her head under the table, and her figure sprawling.

All through keeping a compost heap in your living room.

The word started life meaning dung heap, then later refuse or rubbish heap.

You will be amazed at how much smaller your muck heap is!

Give the heap a good mix Within a few days, the heap is likely to get hot to the touch.

The group went on to heap praise on fellow nominee Richard Hawley.

Peasant scavenging for coal with his son on a state-owned coal mine slag heap.

The White God fell into a heap.

Sound friable loam cut one sod deep from the surface of a pasture, and stacked up for twelve months in a heap or ridge, is invaluable to the gardener.

The salt is " drawn " from the pan and placed (in the case of boiled salts) in small conical baskets hung round the pan to drain, and thence moulded in square boxes and afterwards stove-dried, or (in case of unboiled salts) " drawn " in a heap on to the " hurdles," on which it drains, and thence is carried to the store.

Pest in the meantime entirely lost its importance, and on the departure of the Turks was left little more than a heap of ruins.

He found that the real cone of eruption was an irregular heap 250 ft.

She has done this deed for so many others, but I can't bear to heap more sin on my blackened soul and kill unborn this result of my Joshua's love.

It has also been identified with a mound now called et-Tell (" the heap"), but though the name of a neighbouring village, Turmus Aya, is suggestive, it is in the wrong direction from Bethel.

By the end of October they had perished utterly at the hands of the Seljuks; a heap of whitening bones also remained to testify to the later crusaders, when they passed in the spring of 1097, of the fate of the people's Crusade.

Its medieval representative was Anglona, once a bishopric, but now itself a heap of ruins, among which are those of an 11th-century church.

The particular problem - a heap (hau) and its seventh makes 19 - is solved as we should now solve a simple equation; but Ahmes varies his methods in other similar problems. This discovery carries the invention of algebra back to about 1700 B.C., if not earlier.

In the heap itself was found an immense quantity of pieces of harness and what may be remains of a funeral car.

On the other hand, the precipitation on the Tibetan plateau is so copious, and so uniformly distributed, that it is able to retain the loosened material in situ, and causes it to heap itself up in rounded masses on the flanks of the mountains that are its primitive source of origin, these projecting in great part like skeletons from the midst of their own ruins."

In hand mixing it is usual to measure out from gauge boxes the sand, stones and cement or lime in a heap on a wooden platform.

The leathery coils of its shiny body lay in a heap, stacked at least three tiers high.

Vegetable refuse of all kinds, when smother-burned in a similar way, becomes a valuable mechanical improver of the soil; but the preferable course is to decompose it in a heap with quicklime and layers of earth, converting it into leaf-mould.

This heap, made in the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand tons, was finally covered with hay and boards; and though it was unroofed the following July, and a part of it carried off, the rest remaining exposed to the sun, it stood over that summer and the next winter, and was not quite melted till September, 1848.

She let go, dropping into a heap on the ground then vaulting to her feet and running.

The Original Other lay in a heap on the ground, his throat shredded.

The heavy sparks are projected from the tubes in straight lines and are caught by the louvres L, L, L, and by them deflected downwards to the bottom of the smoke-box, where they collect in a heap in the space D round a tube which is essentially an ejector.

Thus he was able often to recover the meaning of a passage which had long been buried under a heap of contradictory glosses, and he founded a school in which sobriety and common sense were added to the industry and ingenuity of former commentators.

Before being used the turfy ingredients of composts should lie together in a heap only long enough for the roots of the herbage to die, not to decompose.

When I next saw her she was a formless heap of cotton, which I should not have recognized at all except for the two bead eyes which looked out at me reproachfully.

The tongue is so serviceable a member (taking all sorts of shapes, just as is wanted),--the teeth, the lips, the roof of the mouth, all ready to help, and so heap up the sound of the voice into the solid bits which we call consonants, and make room for the curiously shaped breathings which we call vowels!