PIT in a Sentence

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111 example sentences for PIT, such as:

1. Law is a bottomless pit.
2. We dug a deep pit in the yard.
3. They dug a pit to bury the body.
4. The body had been dumped in a pit.
5. A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.

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 Meanings and Examples of PIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pit
 v.  confront; set into opposition or rivalry
Classic Sentence: (97 in 7 pages)
1  When there, a fresh altercation arose between them, in the course of which Drebber received a blow from the stick, in the pit of the stomach, perhaps, which killed him without leaving any mark.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
2  She erected in her mind a mighty Staircase, with a dark pit of shame and ruin at the bottom; and down those stairs, from day to day and hour to hour, she saw Louisa coming.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
3  She shuddered to approach the pit; but she crept towards it on her hands and knees, and called to him as loud as she could call.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
4  Every sound of insects in the air, every stirring of the leaves, every whisper among these men, made Sissy tremble, for she thought it was a cry at the bottom of the pit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  The rope came in tight and strained; and ring after ring was coiled upon the barrel of the windlass, and all eyes were fastened on the pit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
6  When all was ready, this man, still taking his last hurried charges from his comrades and the surgeon after the windlass had begun to lower him, disappeared into the pit.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
7  A narrow space, betwixt these galleries and the lists, gave accommodation for yeomanry and spectators of a better degree than the mere vulgar, and might be compared to the pit of a theatre.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  My father always had a good opinion of him, so when he came back, and went to the pit for a blacksmith's job, I just took him back here as keeper.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  It's going down the bottomless pit, down the chasm.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  Her husband, Ted Bolton, had been killed in the pit, twenty-two years ago, twenty-two years last Christmas, just at Christmas time, leaving her with two children, one a baby in arms.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  Ted Bolton was twenty-eight when he was killed in an explosion down th pit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Why, I've handled some of the toughest customers as ever went down Tevershall pit.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  Even when I was a girl it was the best pit in the country, and a man counted himself lucky if he could on here.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  He went down to the pit day after day, he studied, he put the general manager, and the overhead manager, and the underground manager, and the engineers through a mill they had never dreamed of.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
Example Sentence:
1  The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
2  We dug a deep pit in the yard.
3  The body had been dumped in a pit.
4  He had to make four pit stops during the race.
5  A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
6  Law is a bottomless pit.
7  The female digs a pit in which to lay the eggs.
8  The cars made two pit stops during the race.
9  We saw the huge pit gape before him; if he stumbled, he would fall in.
10  You have to pit a chess player against the Russian champion.
11  They dug a pit to bury the body.
12  Best way to compare iron man and hulk is to pit them against each other.
13  Endeavour, riding piggyback atop a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, took off from Houston at 7:03 a.m. and is headed for NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility in Southern California later today, its final pit stop before arriving in Los Angeles on Friday.
14  The surface of the wood was pitted with holes made by insects.