3596 examples of pitches in sentences

On the other hand, if he gives bases on balls, if he is batted for base hits, if he makes balks, and if he makes wild pitches, he must stand for his blunders and have all such runs charged against him as earned runs.

The climate has not changed, and wherever the Bedawi pitches his tents and scratches the ground there is proof of the old fertility.

Now the maddened creature pitches, with flying heels.

He pitches his hands about with considerable activity, and often flings himself suddenly into a white-heat, tantrum of virtue, and the brethren like him when be does this.

To no one does Mr. Haworth hold the candle; he is candid to all, and pitches into the entire confraternity of his hearers sometimes.

Every citizen of Stockholm who can afford it has a place in the country, no matter how humble or primitive it may be, and if he can not afford a cabin, he pitches a tent in the woods under the pine trees, and if necessary cooks his own meals.

On these he pitches his camp, in full view, where he himself with his Spaniards and Africans only might be posted.

Meanwhile Hannibal, having marched his whole army through the pass, and having cut off some of the enemy in the very defile, pitches his camp in the country of Allifae.

The first sergeant places himself on the right of the right guide and with him pitches a single shelter tent.

A.The ratios of the pitches to the diameter being for each of the relative resistances enumerated above, 1.342, 1.425, 1.513, 1.607, 1.705, 1.810, 1.933, 2.080, and 2.243, the respective fractions of pitch or fractions of a whole convolution will be 0.455, 0.428, 0.402, 0.378, 0.355, 0.334, 0.313, 0.294, and 0.275.

For this purpose he pitches on any subject at random without much thought or delicacyhe is only impatient to beginand takes care to adorn and enrich it as he proceeds with "thoughts that breathe and words that burn."

she says, when he flouts at sober argument and pitches all received opinions hither and thither in the wild capriciousness of youthful paradox.

He moves on to a new position; pitches anew his tent; builds himself up a new theory; and finds the altitudes of the stars above him, and the very forms of the heavenly constellations, change with the change of his earthly habitation.

He rode a bay mare that was not, by a long way, the most reliable piece of horseflesh McClurg owned, yet she gave him the best she had in her, scrambling with a burst of energy on the pitches, leaping the logs, battling the mires, and obeying his every wish.

Did he tell you of the pot which tosses and roars as if the biggest of Beelzebub's fires was burning beneath, and of the hog's-back over which the water pitches, as it may tumble over the Great Falls of the West!

Basilius is strong and active, pitches the bar admirably, wrestles with amazing dexterity, and is an excellent cricketer.

" The thing is in the very opening words of the American Constitution, and Theodore Parker calls it "the American idea" and pitches a still higher note: "A government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; a government of all the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God.

It was a straight up and down road, with exceedingly abrupt pitches, in places damp and slippery, and covered with fallen leaves.

The particulars given in the table may be taken to be as reliable and accurate as such things can be obtained, and for each ship there are corresponding data; that is, the powers, speeds, displacements, revolutions, pitches, and other items existed at the same time.

An interesting and noteworthy fact in connection with these propellers is the wide differences in the pitches and revolutions, though the products of the two do not greatly vary.

Well, after a great search for what was best and most convenient, Friday, at last, whose judgment in such affairs was much superior to mine, pitches upon a kind of wood the most fitting for it.

Gases, impalpable powders, and woolen stuffs, in common with other non-conductors of sound, give forth notes of different pitches when played upon by an intermittent beam of white light.

Long before this sad sound had died away, the deep bass of the City Hall bell, the shrill tenor of the Post Office bell, and the intermediate pitches of the bells all over the city, had taken up the chorus of alarm.

Some spiraled down, like dead leaves twirling in autumnal breezes, with drunken yaws and pitches.

Wy, they 'd queer the best pitches in life, if they kiboshed the Power of the Quid! There's Venice again!

3596 examples of  pitches  in sentences