pile in

phrasal verb

piled in; piling in; piles in
of a group of people, animals, etc.
: to move into a place or vehicle quickly
She parked the van and we all piled in.

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The oven’s smoke suffuses the flame-orange flesh of sweet, tiny beets piled in a quasi-salad atop a swoop of garlicky potato purée. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 Besides the loose pieces of foam in the bathtub and around the toilet, there were a number of trash bags piled in the room, stuffed with even more foam from the beanbag. Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024 But when additional electrons pile in, the magnetic arrangement becomes unstable, and the whole population starts to flow freely. Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024 Folks piled in early to start imbibing in anticipation of that night’s men’s basketball national championship game, Knight’s Isiah Thomas-led Hoosiers against Dean Smith, Al Wood, James Worthy and North Carolina. Joe Rexrode, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pile in 

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“Pile in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pile%20in. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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