Sentence examples for heap from high-quality English sources.

• Heap was inducted into the Raven’s Ring of Honor in 2014.

• Oaktree and Pimco are raising billions of dollars to pick up bargains from the scrap heap.

• A covering should be erected over the apple heap, supported by four sticks for easy access.

• A First World War tank becomes entangled within a mangled heap of barbed wire on the battlefield.

• Heap was moving the truck at his home in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, on Friday when he struck the girl, police said.

• 41 is just the commonsense attitude towards integrated unities, that are not like a heap but like a syllable (§3.2.1).

• A radical incoherence follows since there is a commitment to all and any number both making a heap and not making a heap.

• Thus the ‘heap’ (conjunction) of specific absences of fire, is equivalent to the absence of any fire at all (the disjunction of specific fires).

Use heap in a sentence.

• But relegating shareholders to the bottom of the heap will make investors even less keen on providing money to the undercapitalised banking sector.

• Donald Trump is now the third US president in history to be impeached after a heap of expert witnesses claimed he abused his power and obstructed Congress.

• For example, irrespective of the vagueness of ‘heap’ it is logically true of any number of grains of wheat that it either does or does not make a heap.

• The failure of ministers to recognise the value of shut-down businesses, which now includes many cinemas, means they are consigning thousands of workers to the scrap heap.”

• His ravaged, ex-alcoholic tattoo artist has his work cut out when his estranged daughter comes knocking at his trailer door; she’s brought a whole heap of trouble with her.

• Because the predicate ‘heap’ has unclear boundaries, it seems that no single grain of wheat can make the difference between a number of grains that does, and a number that does not, make a heap.

• In New Farm, it’s close to the Powerhouse, a contemporary multi-arts venue, the Brisbane Riverwalk, a heap of excellent cafes, bars and restaurants, and Fortitude Valley, the city’s entertainment precinct (if going ape is your thing).

• Samsung designed new eco-friendly packaging for some of its TVs so customers can transform what might have been a heap of garbage into useful household items like cat houses, magazine and book holders, or entertainment centers, the company recently announced.

heap sentence examples

• A competent speaker must say that a single grain of wheat does not make a heap; but if that’s right, then she must also say that two grains do not make a heap; and that three grains don’t; and so on until she must say that, e.g., one million grains don’t make a heap.

• Chuka Umunna, the Liberal Democrat business and treasury spokesman, said: "It would be unforgiveable to heap further stress and anxiety on families who are already struggling by deliberately pursuing a policy that the government's own independent economic watchdog now says will result in a recession."

• The argument can be run equally in the opposite direction, from the premise that one million grains make a heap: if one million grains make a heap, then one million less one grain make a heap; and if one million less one grain make a heap, then one million less two grains make a heap; etc.

• The classic Sorites, or ‘heap argument’, seeks to show that even 10,000 grains do not make a heap, on the ground that (a) three grains do not, and (b) the addition of one grain could never be enough to turn a non-heap into a heap: however often a further grain is added, no precise boundary between non-heap and heap is ever found.