They dragged fallen date palms into the streets and piled bricks across others.
It wasn't a very high-tech dam, for that matter - half a kilometer of rock piled across a valley.
Once the fire was under way, he left the shelter and gathered dead wood, piling it across the opening.
What she'd hit or, more accurately, ploughed into, was a thick snowdrift, piled across the road.
Then came two new attackers, piling across the front seat.
No one else was in sight The drifts were piling across the building's front steps, head high.
We must get back and see what we can do to pile stone and beam across the gates within.
Two-thirds of the horde piled across it, while the rest remained to demolish the gate.
Cathan sent, as they piled the king's armor across the trunk at the foot of the bed.
I crawled back to the entry point, pulled in the shovels and used one to pile snow across the gap.