PITCH in a Sentence
Learn PITCH 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.
123 example sentences for PITCH, such as:
1. Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
2. He who touches pitch will be difiled.
3. The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
4. You can't touch pitch without being defiled.
5. He was the best player on the pitch by a mile.
2. He who touches pitch will be difiled.
3. The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
4. You can't touch pitch without being defiled.
5. He was the best player on the pitch by a mile.
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Meanings and Examples of PITCH
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pitch
v. move abruptly
Classic Sentence: (87 in 6 pages)
1 How tempting, how very tempting, to let the view triumph; to reflect its ripple; to let their own minds ripple; to let outlines elongate and pitch over--so--with a sudden jerk.
2 Hyde in danger of his life was a creature new to me; shaken with inordinate anger, strung to the pitch of murder, lusting to inflict pain.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
3 When the two champions stood opposed to each other at the two extremities of the lists, the public expectation was strained to the highest pitch.
4 These reflections had tamed and brought down to a pitch of sounder judgment a temper, which, under other circumstances, might have waxed haughty, supercilious, and obstinate.
5 Waldemar Fitzurse, his able and politic agent, was at secret work among them, tempering all to that pitch of courage which was necessary in making an open declaration of their purpose.
6 I never,' said Mr. Bumble, 'see anything like the pitch it's got to.
7 But the effect of coming into society and light after lonely wandering in darkness is a sociability in the comer above its usual pitch, expressed in the features even more than in words.
8 The general ricochet of the whole over pits and prominences had the gravest pitch of the chime.
9 Below these in force, above them in pitch, a dwindled voice strove hard at a husky tune, which was the peculiar local sound alluded to.
10 The child assumed that this was the cart of a gipsy, and his dread of those wanderers reached but to that mild pitch which titillates rather than pains.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 8 Those Who Are Found Where There Is Said to Be Nobody
11 The extraordinary pitch of excitement that she had reached beforehand would, indeed, have caused her to be influenced by the most commonplace man.
12 Thomasin's cheek was flushed to a pitch far beyond that which it had reached before her troubles, and her eyes glittered.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart
13 Her anxiety reached a high pitch; but there was something in Clym's undeviating manner which made her hesitate before sounding him on the subject.
14 Never pitch yerself in such a low key as that, Christian; you should try more, said Fairway.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
15 To me, with my nerves worked up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the vault.
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1 The football pitch was absolutely sodden.
2 The examiners can pitch on any student to answer questions.
3 We scoured the area for somewhere to pitch our tent.
4 He who touches pitch will be difiled.
5 If we all pitch in together, it shouldn't take too long.
6 You can't touch pitch without being defiled.
7 Touch pitch, and you will be defiled.
8 The crowd managed to break through the barriers and get onto the pitch.
9 When they took up a collection for the annual dinner, he promised to pitch in.
10 I fumbled for the light switch in the pitch dark.
11 At the end of the match, the pitch was a real quagmire.
12 The nation was at fever pitch in the days leading up to the election.
13 He was the best player on the pitch by a mile.
14 The police had difficulty in restraining the crowd from rushing on to the pitch.
15 The ground staff do all they can to prepare the pitch.