Our carriages billowed and bobbed and pitched and humped themselves until I got out and walked to keep from being lamed for life.
We werepitched from Algiers to Genoa--not all at one pitch, though we should have liked that better.
The king, immediately after the battle was over, had blocked up the enemy’s camp, which was pitched upon a hill, whither neither troops nor provisions could come to them.
Their armies, being united, marched to the relief of Jerusalem at the time appointed, and were met and vanquished by the Assyrian in a pitched battle.
Imilcon pitched his tent in the very temple of Jupiter; and the rest of the army encamped at twelve furlongs, or about a mile and a half from the city.
Scipio, the other consul, advanced by forced marches towards the enemy, crossed the Po, and pitchedhis camp near the Ticinus.
It wasn't even ripe until July, and whoever wrote so touchingly of new-mown hay had never stood under a furnace-hot sun and pitched any.
Harky shuddered again and pitched furiously until he had all the cows could eat.
Grimacing as he did so, Harky pitched another forkful of hay down the chute.
If two fellows were having a pitched battle most of the girls I know would quietly faint or run, but I do believe that you would stand by and help a fellow if he needed it.
Donald Whiting pitched his hat upon the seat, shook off his coat, and sent it flying after the hat.
The Pacha landed on the 1st of April, and pitched his tents on the outside of the town, where he rested four days.
On that day, many tents are pitched about this mount, and thither many persons repair, sick as well as healthy; and near this place there is a pond in which the people bathe on the Friday night, in order to get cured of their infirmities.
On the 15th of June Solyman Pacha arrived at Suez, where he pitched his tents and rested eight days.
He acts as though in deadly fear of beingpitched over the animal's head.
Save one left pitched behind him, he struck his every tent.
In the pine grove of Tévar Roy Diaz pitched his tent.
They pitched the tents and got them to their lodging there and then.
The unbelievers haltccl and pitchedpavilions there.
The little Sumter rolled and pitched about as though she, too, were weary of the long period of inaction, and determined to effect some kind of diversion on her own account.
Her voice, high-pitched with excitement, reached his ears, mingled with the doctor's heavy tones.
What ensued was lost in a cackle of French interspersed with high-pitched laughter.
Several such tents had been pitched by Jake Benton and other neighbors, who, finding it ill convenient to go to and from the meeting each night, had decided to run it somewhat on the camp-meeting plan.
Evangelist Blank slept in a tent, which had been pitched near the brush arbor.
With a high-pitched shriek the Indian sprang at him.
That long-ago night Owl Carver had spoken, not with the voice of a man, but with the voice of a spirit, an eerily high-pitched singsong that frightened and fascinated Gray Cloud.
High-pitched war whoops shrilled out of the forest shadows ahead, and more arrows whistled at them.
The hoofbeats of the horses and the shouts of the men to one another, pitched high with terror, shattered the night air.
I pitched head-first into the trench and landed on the top of two privates who were sheltering in the bottom expecting more shrapnel over at any minute.
You are distressed, because in yonder well-trained orchestra a single voice ispitched one-sixteenth of a note too high.
Clearing his throat, and after running his nervous hands through his thin hair, he pitched his voice well forward, as if the deserted square had been packed full of people prepared to hang upon his words.
Of course if the Dutch could once bring them within range of their guns, or entice them into a pitched battle, European skill and discipline would be victorious.
Once or twice we came upon a regiment at sunset, just as they had pitched their tents.
He pointed out in the distance the very route they took, and even places on the sides of the successive ranges where they pitched their tents.
We pitched our tents in a pleasant hillside grove, where we rested the next day, employing our leisure in putting our arms in order.
The skies threatening we pitched tents for the night along the Little Antietam.
On our arrival at the fort we found tents pitched ready to receive us, just vacated by the New York 8th, and 71st, before alluded to.
Then you must set your tent-poles in such positions as that the tent, when pitchedshall preserve nicely the rectilinearity of the street and its own equipoise.
The pots were on in a trice, and by the time we had tents pitched we were saluted with the "Fall in" for soup.
To make the matter worse they were sent out at first with insufficient supplies for urgent needs, and with so few attendants that tents for all could not be pitched the same night.
Undismayed by the strength and fury of the enemy, he attacked and routed them in a pitched battle, killing their leader with his own hands, invaded Pegu, and besieged its capital; but was finally compelled to retire with considerable loss.
Their manner of hurling it does not differ materially from that which all mighty players have practised since Caesar's soldiers pitched quoits for rations.
The Office for the Burial of Children is acknowledged to be a needed addition, but as it stands "is pitched in an entirely wrong key.
It was written from the depths of such sorrow as He only can fully sympathise with, who for thirty years pitched his tent in the valley of human misery.
Although it appears to have been more of a skirmish than a pitched battle, victory was purchased, on the part of the Danes, by the death of Ethelwold, and England then enjoyed a two years' peace.
And the rustler pitched headlong over the framework, falling heavily against the wall beyond.
Pitched within and without to keep it tight and sweet, and lighted from the upper part.
He pitched the ship inside and outside with bitumen, and as soon as it was finished, there came a flood of rain and "destroyed all life from the face of the whole earth.
This because the ridges around are too high pitched for ploughing, and if ploughed would be unproductive.
The night has arrived when, in accordance with the promise made on that sheet of paper so dexterously pitched into her cloister, the Soeur Marie is to see friends in front of her window.
Living or dead, springing off, or pitched over, they could not determine.
In the afternoon, another little wanderer from the land pitched on the ship, and was so worn out with fatigue, that it suffered itself to be taken immediately, and died a few hours afterward.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
