One of the men flung the keys into a dense pile of leaves.

My father still brings it all home, heaped in a dense sticky pile or heat-sealed inside cellophane.

A plush carpet has a dense, deep pile.

Velvet is a type of tufted fabric in which the cut threads are very evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it its distinct feel.

He resisted the temptation to press his face into the dense pile of it.

A dense pile wears better than a loosely-woven one, which can be parted to reveal the backing.

The second floor was carpeted in pale beige, a wool pile so dense I felt as if we were slogging through dry sand.

The weight of these errors accumulated, like autumn leaves blown into a chance pocket of a backyard, making improbably dense piles.

The men soon found more remains, those of what looked like a thin young man, suspended in a dense pile of rubble near a freshly painted yellow house.

Choose stair carpeting with dense, short pile in a solid color or with a simple pattern.