Example sentences for: pitted

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

  • Division winners were pitted against one another in post-season play, with the victors advancing to the World Series.

  • For months Dean's claims that the president was (like himself) guilty of obstruction of justice simply pitted his own word against Nixon's.

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

  • The new function of government departs radically from the dyadic structure—the individual pitted against the state—underlying the Bill of Rights.

  • a worm of delight for those who watch, the pitted eyes of Oedipus make our play, worm


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