Piling has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | His debts were piling up. | |
| 2. | And so the method that works is treading down the snow to harden it, making blocks and piling them up. | |
| 3. | The bills keep piling up. | |
| 4. | No matter how much I rush it, miscellaneous work keeps piling up and I can't catch up with it. | |
| 5. | The dishes are piling up in the sink. | |
| 6. | You say that your savings are piling up and you have no way of spending them? That's really an extravagant kind of worry to have. | |
| 7. | Sami's unpaid bills were piling up. | |
| 8. | The dishes are piling up in the sink because we've run out of dishwashing detergent. | |
| 9. | We, sword in hand, make onset, and invite / the gods and Jove himself the spoil to share, / and piling couches, banquet on the fare. | |
| 10. | The only road connecting his home to the local market is very narrow, a one-way track, built by piling dirt between two plots of farmland. |