5 sentences with “pit”

The face turns pale, the heartbeat increases, the pit of the stomach tightens and the limbs become paralysed.

For a closer look at the diamond mine, Kim takes me to its eastern edge. The step-walled pit is 1,500 metres long, 600 metres wide and 150 metres deep.

Sing? The teacher told me years later that she felt a pit in the pit of her stomach. Like Mrs. Chapman, she knew only the timorous Patsy who never opened her mouth. How is this little girl going to raise her voice in front of hundreds of people, she wondered... she would soon find out.

One passage reads, "The wrath of God burns against them [sinners], their damnation slumbers not, the pit is prepared, the fire is ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them, the flames now roar and glow. The bright sword is sharpened and held over them, and the pit has opened its mouth beneath them."

According to conventional wisdom, guacamole stays green if you put an avocado pit in it. McGee thought that was nonsense, so he set to work. He discovered that, with or without the peel, it takes about 90 minutes for the mashed avocado to turn an unappetising grey colour, yet it retains its green colour under the peel.