How to Use dogpile in a Sentence

dogpile

noun
  • Kidd sprinted from the bench to join in the team-wide dogpile, too.
    Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Wouldn’t have wanted to be on the bottom of that dogpile, though.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 June 2021
  • Screaming for the mob of players who formed a one ton dogpile on top of him to get off.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Summer is gone, and the fall has brought a historic dogpile of action.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Half the state went wild as, buried at the bottom of a dogpile, Watts-Jackson suffered a broken hip, and half the state ...
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2020
  • What will all of this will cost, beyond a dogpile of games crossing two seasons?
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Only one community — the one in orange, or the one in red and black — can end the series in a dogpile on the field though.
    Dallas News, 1 June 2022
  • Crowe stepped on the bag to finish Walsh’s four innings of relief, leading to a dogpile of joyous Hoban players.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 14 June 2021
  • Welsh, a lefty, moved over from first base for Helms and closed out the victory in the seventh with three strikeouts, as the Bobcats celebrated with a dogpile on the mound.
    Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2021
  • The Tigers stormed the infield, forming a gigantic dogpile near the mound as Oregon State players watched in disbelief from the home dugout railing.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 June 2022
  • Northeastern threatened with a pair of baserunners in the bottom of the seventh, but Huber silenced the Jets with three final outs to clinch a trip to Akron, and cause a dogpile of Spartans on the field.
    Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • Peyton Steele tagged from third and appeared to easily slide home with the game-winning run, creating a Hartselle dogpile down the first base line.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 8 July 2022
  • Now, along with a who's who of out-of-town players, Midland's top squad again has some familiar high school faces who seek the winning dogpile in New Mexico in late July.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 30 June 2021
  • Willingham hit a fly ball to medium centerfield for the second out of the inning, driving home what looked like the winning run in a sliding Peyton Steele and sparking a Hartselle dogpile around the first base coaches box.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 19 May 2021
  • When the final whistle sounded, Vitiello’s jubilant teammates buried him beneath a dogpile in front of the goal before heading to the south grandstands to celebrate with their supporters.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2022
  • Musgrove listened as Gore sorted through delivering on all that promise to start 2022, only to be caught in a dogpile of starting pitching riches the organization has only dreamed about.
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • After a dogpile with teammates to celebrate his accomplishment, the 6-foot, 200-pound dual-sport athlete remembered he was supposed to contact Idaho State associate head football coach Roger Cooper for a recruiting call.
    oregonlive, 13 May 2021
  • Which of these exquisite vehicular specimens will be standing atop this impossibly elegant dogpile of classics?
    Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Kidd sprinted from the bench to join in the team-wide dogpile, too.
    Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Wouldn’t have wanted to be on the bottom of that dogpile, though.
    Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 2 June 2021
  • Screaming for the mob of players who formed a one ton dogpile on top of him to get off.
    Bill Oram, oregonlive, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Summer is gone, and the fall has brought a historic dogpile of action.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Half the state went wild as, buried at the bottom of a dogpile, Watts-Jackson suffered a broken hip, and half the state ...
    Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2020
  • What will all of this will cost, beyond a dogpile of games crossing two seasons?
    Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Only one community — the one in orange, or the one in red and black — can end the series in a dogpile on the field though.
    Dallas News, 1 June 2022
  • Crowe stepped on the bag to finish Walsh’s four innings of relief, leading to a dogpile of joyous Hoban players.
    Matt Goul, cleveland, 14 June 2021
  • Welsh, a lefty, moved over from first base for Helms and closed out the victory in the seventh with three strikeouts, as the Bobcats celebrated with a dogpile on the mound.
    Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2021
  • The Tigers stormed the infield, forming a gigantic dogpile near the mound as Oregon State players watched in disbelief from the home dugout railing.
    Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 13 June 2022
  • Northeastern threatened with a pair of baserunners in the bottom of the seventh, but Huber silenced the Jets with three final outs to clinch a trip to Akron, and cause a dogpile of Spartans on the field.
    Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 4 June 2022
  • Peyton Steele tagged from third and appeared to easily slide home with the game-winning run, creating a Hartselle dogpile down the first base line.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 8 July 2022

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