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?