pit

[pɪt]

Definition:
1. A large deep hole in the ground.
2. A deep hole in the ground from which minerals are dug out.
3. Set into opposition or rivalry.

Use 'pit' in a sentence:

1. Bowen and Harrell have found the camp that housed workers at the stone pit.
2. The pit was one of the 31 earmarked for closure by the Trade and Industry Secretary.
3. You will be pitted against people who are every bit as good as you are.
4. Supporters ate piles of beef brisket and toasted marshmallows at the fire pit.
5. The debate will pit the industrial North against developing countries in the South.
6. She drew him away from the pit.
7. He moved quickly into the pits and climbed rapidly out of the car.
8. Mary Ann asked him how dinner had been. 'The pits,' he replied.
9. He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.
10. Other areas are to lose aid so that money can be reallocated to towns devastated by pit closures.
11. He had to make four pit stops during the race.
12. This area of former farmland was worked as a gravel pit until 1964.
13. I had a funny feeling in the pit of my stomach.
14. There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending.
15. A pig fell into a big pit.
16. It was a better community then when all the pits were working.
17. Your software project might have its own kind of pit canary.
18. He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning.
19. A gold mine is not a bottomless pit, the gold runs out.
20. There's a pit.
21. I could hear the pit-a-pat of feet in the corridor.
22. This was one man pitted against the universe.
23. Do you remember the pit?
24. Smallpox scars had pitted his face.
25. He's a bottomless pit as far as food is concerned.
26. The problem is we don't have a bottomless pit of resources.
27. The gravel pits have been landscaped and planted to make them attractive to wildfowl.
28. The pit is ventilated by a steel fan.
29. Her heart went pit-a-pat.
30. The children tumbled about in the sand pit.
31. The boys dug pits and baited them so that they could spear their prey.
32. He had a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
33. Everywhere building facades are pitted with shell and bullet holes.
34. The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like an American pit bull terrier.
35. The tan-coloured dog looks suspiciously like a pit bull terrier.
36. He was convicted of failing to muzzle a pit bull.
37. Eric lost his footing and began to slide into the pit.
38. I'd like to manage at the very highest level and pit my wits against the best.
39. I could use a pit stop.
40. He went down the pit when he left school.
41. The body had been dumped in a pit.
42. We dug a deep pit in the yard.
43. Dig a pit and bury the garbage.
44. Lawyers and accountants felt that they were being pitted against each other.
45. The pit is being shut down because it no longer has enough coal that can be mined economically.
46. Does that metal pit after contact with acid?