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The home appears to be filled with trash, including piled cardboard boxes.—Ethan Wolin
july 25, Sacbee.com, 25 July 2025 Another piled belts over a striped Trucker jacket and matching utility jeans.—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 12 Feb. 2025 The offbeat setting and the unusual curatorial style, with sculptures assorted around piled boxes of hosiery, acted as a creative means of showing the work of young artists during a time when many New York galleries are closing.—The Artnews Awards Jury, ARTnews.com, 4 Dec. 2024 Verdant grape bunches, zucchini slices, halved limes, and olives spilled from a centerpiece of piled lettuce heads across the tabletop.—Mel Studach, Architectural Digest, 20 Nov. 2024 Neatly piled boxes of Narcan and small bags of toiletries sat on the conference room table.—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 20 Mar. 2024 There was a table in the back piled feet high with rolls of patterned fabric, which people used to make their own clothes, or pillowcases, or bags.—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024 These remarkably straight roads tended to be dug two or three meters deep into the landscape and were bordered by tall curbs of piled earth.—Kiona N. Smith, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024 Whether Tesla will budge is still up in the air — air that will start reeking of piled garbage starting on December 24th when the strike begins.—Umar Shakir, The Verge, 13 Dec. 2023
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