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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of PITCH
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.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
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
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  I never,' said Mr. Bumble, 'see anything like the pitch it's got to.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
8  The general ricochet of the whole over pits and prominences had the gravest pitch of the chime.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
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
11  The extraordinary pitch of excitement that she had reached beforehand would, indeed, have caused her to be influenced by the most commonplace man.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
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
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 1 The Rencounter by the Pool
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
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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
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.