Words similar to pit

Example sentences for: pit

How can you use “pit” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

During the 16th century a fleet of galleons laden with treasures used the port as a pit stop on the way back to Spain from the New World.
Cynics' translation: He's getting an attack dog . Sure, say the critics, Ballmer is tactile and outgoing-like a pit bull.
Sample the taste of ackee cooked with saltfish, Jamaica’s national dish, and the smell of hot jerk pork cooked in a pit barbecue.
Just a little way north of the palace site is the chrysólakkas or ‘pit of gold,’ where the ‘golden bee’ pendant was discovered among a greater cache of jewels.
When we last encountered Ripley, she was doing a backward swan dive into a pit of molten lead with a bewildered baby alien erupting from her chest.