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How to use the word piling in a Sentence? Page #2

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I can not imagine why they would pick up an old man at the airport and charge him with something like that, it's just piling on of government bureaucracy onto the Cliven Bundy family.

Susan Hammond

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You saw real issues with taxpayers piling money into stadiums for billionaire owners while simultaneously laying off teachers, firefighters, and police officers.

Victor Matheson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With all the bills piling up, I can't afford to get new teeth, (I) would like to eat a good meal again someday. Like salad, used to love eating salad. I can't eat that anymore. A lot of things I love I can't eat anymore.

Robert Sobieray

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think it's a little short-sighted for investors to be piling out of U.S. equities.

Karyn Cavanaugh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you react to that by piling more intervention on intervention, you encourage more untoward risk taking and you end up with even greater amount of mis-priced risk.

Ashley Alder

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Desiderius Erasmus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

Martin H. Fischer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties and those who demand nothing special of themselves, bu

Jose Ortega y Gasset

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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