8 sentences with 'pitch'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pitch and other words derived from it.
• « For example, when oil fields were discovered in Persia in 1908, European interest in Middle Eastern imperialism reached a fever pitch, as European powers cultivated contacts among Arab nationalist groups and undermined the waning unity of the Ottoman Empire. »
• « In this very second, in just one second, an area of jungle equivalent to the size of a football pitch has just been razed to the ground in the Amazon. Probably, with this level of depredation and with the death of these trees, the only hope of finding in botany the miraculous vaccine or remedy against some incurable disease has gone. »
• « After each pitch, my uncle would jump up, throw the ball back to me and exclaim, "Way to go, Paddy! You struck him out!" »
• « My uncle was always hard on me, until I was losing on the count and he saw me blushing with fear. Then he'd give me a good pitch, even though I knew the ball was a long way from being in the strike zone. »
• « I remember the only time my uncle spoke to me harshly. It was before a game in which I wasn't going to pitch. »
• « The Palau Sant Jordi, an indoor multi-purpose stadium, was inaugurated in the autumn of 1989. From each of its 17,000 seats, there is a good view of the pitch, which is large enough to accommodate a whole block of ten-storey buildings. »
• « If it is a football match, for example, before starting the game, the pitch must be marked out and the roles - goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders, forwards - must be distributed. It is also essential that the players know the rules and that they follow them. If the rules are not followed, it is impossible to play the match. »