1.   As she wandered around introducing herself to people, she noticed a tall African-American man with hair that resembled a pile of alfalfa sprouts.

2.   At the ferry station, a chattery group of old Russian women resembled a pile of hats and coats blown in by the wind from Moscow.

3.   Once it came to a stop, it resembled a pile of junk more than a fearsome bomber.

4.   There is a soot-belching steel plant virtually downtown, its grounds festooned with crushed cars that resemble piles of sugar cubes.

5.   The majority resemble piles of clothing, stripped of flesh by winter weather and predatory animals.

6.   Virtually every other home along a coastal highway was crumpled, the rubble resembling piles of matchsticks.