A ship is said to be "diving into it" when she pitches heavily against a head-sea.
Small cushions or bags of tarred canvas, used to preserve the stays from being chafed by the motion of the masts, when the ship pitches at sea.
The whole extent of ground on which an army pitches its tents and lodges.
The Major who needs a drink to line up for the day, gropes about in his blankets, gets a dollar, pitches it into the basket an' requests Bowlaigs to caper over for the Willow Run.
Silver Phil pitches from the saddle an' strikes the grass to one side.
Hardrobe pitches onto the floor as dead as ever transpires in that tribe.
As the shaving days are unalterable, they often fall upon days of high seas and tempestuous winds, when the vessel pitches and rolls in a frightful manner.
It is curious, how unerringly a man pitches upon a spirit, any way akin to his own, even in the most miscellaneous mob.
Space must be left for this tent if the cooks are not in ranks when the company pitches tents.
The first sergeant places himself on the right of the right guide and with him pitches a single shelter tent.
The Chinaman gave the ore to Salty, thanked him for his friendly treatment, told him that at a place in the Panamint where "the Big Timber pitches down into a steep canyon," he had found the float.
For four or five years the two men made trips in search of the place where Big Timber pitches into a canyon.
The square, thick-set bowler shows his teeth as the ball pitches short.
At first Thorny’s pitches were easy to handle, but as he began to warm up Tom found the ball more difficult to judge.
Kortright is one of the fastest bowlers of this age or any other, and in the days of rough pitches was a terror to the county’s opponents; C.
If the ball pitches outside the leg stump, it should be hit anywhere to the right of mid-on.
It is either just before the ball pitchesor on the rise, according to the length of the ball.
If he found he was breaking too much, he would change from over to round the wicket, and on fast pitches he soon had a go round the wicket at a batsman who appeared comfortable at the other sort.
The tones are impure; instead of containing only one pitch, each note shades off into pitches a trifle higher, or lower, or both.
They did not know that different qualities and pitches result from special adjustments and contractions of the throat muscles.
Now the fern owl pitches himself over the oaks in the evening as a boy might throw a ball careless whither it goes; the next moment he comes up out of the earth under your feet.
The tool shown gives all pitches up to 48 threads per inch.
We then leave the river and wind over uneven road with many pitches caused by heavy rains washing the land, which is generally barren.
The first mile was bad traveling, there being several steep pitches in the road making it dangerous for axletrees.
Towards the foot, the road is still more uneven and there are several steep pitches and rises.
Determining the pitches of the teeth for change wheels, i, 182.
C, and there will be more difference between the arc and chordpitches on the cutter than there is on the wheel, and as a result the cutter will cut a groove too narrow.
Modifications of this form of thread are used in coarse pitches for screws that are to thread direct into woodwork.
One as was short just pitches clear an 'undred yards ahead o' us.
Our seventh shotpitches close to him, and ricochets.
He takes up the head, which snaps at his finger, and pitches it out into the yard.
The speaker pitches his voice high, as if it could not otherwise be heard at a distance.
Nap shuffled about nervously as the Lakeville captain took his three practice pitches and Bi shot the last ball to Jump, on second, who swooped low to tag an imaginary runner.
The road for some miles on either side of Broughton is little more than a stony lane which pitches up and down some frightful hills.
So narrow and steep is the street that pitches down the hill into Fowey that we leave the car at the top and make the descent on foot.
At Lyme Regis the road pitches down a sharp hill into the town, which covers the slopes of a ravinelike valley.
We cautiously follow the sinuous road until it pitches sharply down into the ravinelike coomb occupied by the Looes, East and West, according to their position on the river.
He who pitches too high, won’t get through his song.
If Ford pitches to-day," said McGraw to his team in the clubhouse before the first game, "wait everything out to the last minute.
Wait till he pitches again," said Tinker by way of conclusion, as he took his diamond ring from the trainer and left the clubhouse.
I question whether "the Colonel" himself loses much sleep when a chunk of the hill that bears up his residence lets go andpitches into the canal.
But whereas the continental European would sit down before the misfortune and weep, the American swears a round oath, spits on his hands, and pitches in to shovel the "slide" out again.
Creak and Robinson were able to walk up over both pitches without having even to cut a step.
The more southerly of these has two pitches in it close to the foot, and the upper of the two is generally thought as hard as anything on the mountain.
It has three pitches near the foot, and in all three the hold is somewhat scanty.
Wilson, whose account of it is as follows: 'This very fine gorge has three good-sized pitches in the lower part.
The space comprised between the two pitches can be entered very easily by passing round the foot of the Scafell Pillar, or with much more difficulty down the vertical south wall.
There are six large pitches and several small ones.
The face of it towards the north affords a good climb, and on the east side there is a gully, which is choked near the top by a block, which makes one of the stiffest pitches in all Cumberland.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
