pits

Example Sentences

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The state's so-called "jungle primary" pits all comers in one mega-poll.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

For decades, life in these pits was intertwined with tragedy.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

As Chen De’an, head of excavation at the K1 and K2 pits, points out, walking into the elaborate complex that now surrounds the dig, “There was nothing here but fields.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The most stomach-turning odors rose up from the open latrine pits where the men—and Nate—all did their private business.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis