pit

Example Sentences

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For the first time, an exhibition halftime matchup will spotlight senior dogs, pitting Team Oldies against Team Goldies in a showcase that highlights the joys of adopting older animals, who are often overlooked in shelters.

From Salon

Thais vote Sunday in an election pitting the popular reformists who won last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister, with ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra looming large from his prison cell.

From Barron's

"I went deep into the pit in my stomach and I found my flow state and I told myself that I have worked so ridiculously hard," she said.

From Barron's

"It leaves me with a pit in my stomach. It's disgusting, it's depraved, it's exploitative, it's utterly disrespectful."

From BBC

Even as Ms. Back writes searchingly and evocatively about her suffering, she finds that narrative prose cannot depict the “black pit of depression, a landscape marked by lacunae.”

From The Wall Street Journal