Example sentences for: pitch

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

  • A long time ago, when I was doing a satirical news show at a rock station in Los Angeles, they bought an analog tape machine with a rotating head, the premise being that it wouldn't change the pitch of records, but would slyly speed them up to make room for--more commercials.

  • There are, of course, cases where mixtures have unique properties, e.g., in the case of the intensities of harmonic overtones (integer multiples of the fundamental frequency) that distinguish a C tone produced by a guitar from that of a flute—but we can still identify the fundamental, whose perceived pitch is not altered by the overtones.

  • When Hillary came along, and spoke at a similar rhetorical pitch, she was talking to a generation of contented fellow boomers, in an era of prosperity, at a time when social norms have shifted hugely--to the good--in a more progressive direction.

  • The version of this column available only to subscribers is not the rather perfunctory sales pitch you see before you.

  • On the other hand, are odor mixtures simply perceived as a compound entity with distinct components (like a triad in vertebrate pitch perception), or are mixtures unique entities that are perceived as fundamentally different from their elements (like “white” in color perception)?


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