His left foot landed on a loose pile of bricks that promptly slid out from under him.

He spread them haphazardly over a loose pile of hay.

The chain was carefully wound into a loose pile by the minotaur's side.

He settled into a heap, a loose pile of gray ash.

Suddenly the black cone was close; it looked like a loose pile of dark rock sitting on the red stone around it.

Soon their clothes were in loose piles on the forest floor.

There was a big loose pile of cordwood inside.

He slapped his hand on a loose pile of scrawled pages that stood upon the desk.

He bent to a loose pile of' stones and heaved.

The eggs (up to several thousand) are distributed in a loose pile.