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Example sentences for: pitted

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Where Shaw's characters tend to represent views pitted against each other, Hare's cannot resist becoming genuine characters--contradictory, quirky, and imperfect both as heroes and villains.
Division winners were pitted against one another in post-season play, with the victors advancing to the World Series.
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.
If nothing else, Lewinsky's a twentysomething pitted against middle-age baby boomers--Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Kenneth Starr, Bill Clinton.
Why not clear-cut the threatened stands before the wood is pitted?