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Example sentences for: pits

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The issue pits the rich countries against the poor ones, and no progress is made.
This results in an unusual list that pits the paperbacks of successful literary novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things against hardcover celebrity health books such as Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover and inspirational titles such as Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul . The list even includes the occasional children's title.
Their inhabitants dwelled in sunken pits and lived from hunting, fishing, and the gathering of roots and nuts.
However, the benefits of this formula do extend beyond the pits.
It pits the interests of dot-com companies that don't want to be burdened by collecting taxes on behalf of some 7,500 different sales-taxing jurisdictions against the interests of states and municipalities that rely on revenues to fund schools, law enforcement, and public works projects.