Example sentences for: pits

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

  • 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.

  • Their inhabitants dwelled in sunken pits and lived from hunting, fishing, and the gathering of roots and nuts.

  • (Click here to read a less positive review of the film: "South Park is another movie straight from the smoking pits of Hell," and for David Edelstein's rave in Slate .)

  • After all, as Fortune put it recently, the president and CEO of Conde Nast, Steven Florio, "turned a mildly profitable property into one of the greatest money pits in American magazine history."

  • 5. It pits Starr against Lewinsky.


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