How To Use Pitchy In A Sentence

  • Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crown the hills, are all behind them. The French Revolution
  • O let them not bring about their damned designs that stand now at the entrance of the bottomless pit, expecting the watchword to open and let out those dreadful locusts and scorpions to reinvolve us in that pitchy cloud of infernal darkness, where we shall never more see the sun of Thy truth again, never hope for the cheerful dawn, never more hear the bird of morning sing. Life of John Milton
  • Crystals are probably at least partially metamict and can be recognized by their high specific gravity, pitchy luster, and black color.
  • Drawing has been rudely incised and rubbed with pitchy graphite, which collects in the scars of the engraved surface.
  • At length he softly rose and crept noiselessly to the door; the fastening was the primitive latch with a string attached; it opened without a sound in his cautious handling, and he found himself in the pitchy darkness outside, the wild mountain wind whirling about him, and the rain descending in steady torrents. Down the Ravine
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  • The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
  • While McKenzie's voice remains a work in progress - "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson might describe her as "pitchy" - she is focused and remarkably expressive. CantonRep.com Home RSS
  • Flint is best for hand sanding painted or pitchy surfaces which can clog the paper.
  • She is a rocker chick, and she has a passable voice, but Steven notes that she was "pitchy," especially when she did a few bars of "Dream On. American Idol Episode Recap: Milwaukee Auditions
  • More often than not they're long wooden buildings, creosoted to a pitchy blackness and with white-painted windows.
  • Waved round the coast, up-called a pitchy cloud340 Paradise Lost: The First Book
  • Sir Percy, Ellen The Generous, Kara and Simon all find various ways -- "pitchy" "you went off" and "wasn't a perfect vocal" among them -- to note his off performance, but quickly add: Two Idolettes sing one last time
  • He already knew ore -- the glossy, sub-metallic, pitchy black luster of uraninite or pitchblende; the yellows of autunite and carnotite; the variant and confusing greens of tobernite. First Lensman
  • Abdomen yellowish brown, above sprinkled with dark brown, the edges of each segment with several small wart-like prominences; two first segments being also shagreened at the sides, beneath pitchy brown, segments at the base black with green reflections; the femora are pitchy brown; the tibiAe pale yellowish with black spines; the tarsi of a deeper yellow; head dark brown, the trophi and a narrow line on the cheeks yellowish; antennae somewhat ferruginous. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
  • The stratum of the earth is black and pitchy, and the springs beneath it are of a dark and graveolent water. The Pilgrims of the Rhine
  • The pitchy pigment's obscuring weight seems to bank rather than smother the glimmering coruscations.
  • Idol" winner David Cook performed his new song "The Last Goodbye" in a manner that Randy Jackson might have described as "pitchy". Breaking News: CBS News
  • The night was quite dark, but not what is called pitchy dark. Driven From Home
  • Looking back, it's amazing that they were on key, never "pitchy" as they say on "American Idol. Binky Philips: Dad Takes Me To See The Beatles - August 29th, 1964
  • Almost before he was in, he found he could come up; but he came up slowly, breaking surface in pitchy blackness and feeling about him without splashing. CHAPTER XIII

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