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trash pile

n. an accumulation of refuse and discarded matter [syn: garbage heap, junk heap, rubbish heap, scrapheap, trash heap, junk pile, refuse heap]

Usage examples of "trash pile".

When the sun came up it would bathe every exposed pipe and trash pile and abandoned rover in unsympathetic light.

I reckon Sheridan's still looking for 'em, or got 'em listed as deserters, but they're there in the trash pile, if you want to see 'em.

One of them rode ninety floors down to the underground loading bay and found an empty carton in the trash pile.

Then I was lying crosswise on the Zodiac, random pieces of Gallagher's trash pile were splashing into the water around us, and we were headed back to the Blowfish.

She looked small and out of place in the yard, like an orchid in a trash pile.

The only examination given to the discarded parts in the trash pile is visual.

The room was furnished much like his childhood home in Austin: bookshelves of cinder blocks and particleboard, comfortable sofa with sagging cushions and the nap on the arms worn thin, table that looked like a refugee from someone else's trash pile.

The stove was salvaged from a trash pile, and Annie rescued the safe from a hardware store in Selkirk.

They came to rest on the Parnell farm, on a trash pile, and their first efforts were merely a blind duplication of what they encountered first: an empty tin can stained with the juice of once-living fruit, a broken axe handle of wood.

Rune paused then dropped a pair of scorched jeans into the trash pile.

I wasn't sure it was the same place at all until I walked around back: the tin-roofed garage that served as the minister's rectory was the same ratty rundown trash pile from five years ago.

A family of raccoons, hunkered down at a trash pile, gave a green-eyed stare to the caravan but never budged from its supper.

Weeds, filth, the house falling apart, and you sitting here like a--like a toad in a trash pile, sinking deeper and deeper and doing nothing, waiting for someone to .