PIT in a Sentence
Learn PIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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
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pit
n. a trap in the form of a concealed hole
n. (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
9 It's going down the bottomless pit, down the chasm.
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.
11 Ted Bolton was twenty-eight when he was killed in an explosion down th pit.
12 Why, I've handled some of the toughest customers as ever went down Tevershall pit.
13 My word, won't it be funny when there's no Tevershall pit working.
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.
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.
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.