Example sentences for: pitted

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

  • The rough and tumble of postbellum politics pitted one segment of the nation against the other.

  • They imagine a dyadic conception of government—the individual pitted against the state.

  • In a case that pitted the fragile honor of the Army against the very survival of French republican democracy, the captain had to wait 12 years for full rehabilitation.

  • Light is balanced by shadow, and rugged limestone rocks (yang) are chosen for their pitted and convoluted surface, balancing the smooth surface of calm pools and quiet streams (yin).

  • In retrospect, Clinton appears to have shrewdly pitted the Ickes group against Morris as an exercise in the management style FDR called "creative tension."


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