"heap" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

heap sustantivo

sustantivo + heap
Kolokacji: 20
compost heap • scrap heap • trash heap • slag heap • garbage heap • ...
adjetivo + heap
Kolokacji: 43
great heap • little heap • crumpled heap • small heap • untidy heap • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 10
(2) crumpled, mangled
Kolokacji: 2
(4) whole, conical
Kolokacji: 2
(5) tangled, mere, unconscious
Kolokacji: 3
(6) bloody, broken, confused
Kolokacji: 3
(7) limp, tumbled, loose
Kolokacji: 3
(8) old, dusty
Kolokacji: 2
(9) lifeless, motionless
Kolokacji: 2
(10) pathetic, pitiful, undignified
Kolokacji: 3
1. pathetic heap = wzruszająca sterta pathetic heap
2. pitiful heap = żałosna sterta pitiful heap
  • The old man dropped dead, his wizened body sprawled in a pitiful heap.
  • I went to see anyway, and found the astrologer's body lying in a pitiful heap on the floor of his pitiful lodging.
  • The deserting porters lay moaning and whimpering in pitiful heaps, with their loot scattered about them.
  • Doli, however, had quickly taken flint from his pouch and had struck a spark into the pitiful heap of splinters.
  • Matt stared down at the pitiful heap of ashes before him, feeling foolish and, strangely, very, very guilty.
  • I found the old surgeon lying, a shrunken, pitiful heap of withered skin and bones.
  • It fell to the cold ground in a pitiful little heap and lay unmoving.
  • Draping it around his neck, he went over to the pitiful sobbing heap and knelt down by it.
  • We stood in the cold slush beside the pitiful heap I had just leased against my better judgment.
  • Then ne stepped over the pitiful, horri-ble heap on the carpet and went on.
3. undignified heap = niegodna sterta undignified heap
preposición + heap
Kolokacji: 8
with heaps • into a heap • in a heap • to a heap • on a heap • ...

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