How To Use Pitting In A Sentence
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With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.
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She got up and went over to the fire crackling and spitting nearby.
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He seems keen on conflict, pitting the countryside against the city.
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I was revolted by his dirty habit of spitting.
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Now my brother was telling me we'd grown up within spitting distance of a nuclear dump.
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Now the games that involved, and we can basically say that they were blood sports, they might involve pitting of slaves or prisoners of war, against wild animals or gladiators.
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Its hissing and spitting natural geyser is located seven kilometers southeast of the former Jalisco hacienda of El Carmen.
Trees, shadows, steam and the rays of the early morning sun combine to cast an eerie spell over the hot river of Los Hervores. Its hissing and spitting natural geyser is located seven kilometers southeast of the former Jalisco hacienda of El Carmen. © Joh
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Blistering paint on metal components may be the first sign of galvanic corrosion, followed by a white powdery buildup on the aluminum surface and finally deep pitting that leaves the aluminum weak and porous.
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Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
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After having difficulty with choking and spitting up during and after bottle feeds, the parents had turned to a ‘slow-flow’ nipple that they had found in a local department store.
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The clip showed him spitting vile lyrics bragging about murder.
The Sun
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Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
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Dressed head to toe in yellow she looked the spitting image of the cute character.
The Sun
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Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire.
Scent of Love
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Human beatboxing is the traditional folk skill of spitting enthusiastically into a microphone.
Times, Sunday Times
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The baptism begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renouncing Satan, blowing three times in the air, and spitting three times on the floor.
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Can you exude charm when spitting out yoghurt?
Times, Sunday Times
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The only sound for several seconds was the sound of the fire, spitting and crackling sparks.
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He referred in letters home, when he first got here in May of 1831, to what he called the stinking arrogance of Americans, the fact that halfway through a conversation with you they insist on, you know, spitting some long stream of tobacco juice into the corner of the room or that they'd shake hands with you as though they'd known you for 10 years, and so on and so on.
Introduction Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America
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In the interest of spitting a sluicy cobwebbed thread to tie together the conversations in and around this corner of the infoweb and its earbound counterpart, I wanted to offer up one more chance to allow our space to double as the hotbed of information on the social and biological activities of the Tree Squirrel, and bring some attention to our relationship with tree squirrels.
A Letter to A.A. (Almost Anybody) | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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The term embraces all the many different aspects of a culture that are expressed through food: from the agricultural economy to pickling recipes, from kinship ties to the correct technique for spitting an olive stone into your hand.
Delizia!
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Clucking the tongue is a good example, but there are plenty of others - kissing, spitting or slurping noises, for example, or naturalistic imitations of animal sounds.
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Carlyle didn't take much persuading to make a cameo appearance, and the resultant sketch - on the set of a war movie - is a riot of hamminess, spitting and bad German pronunciation.
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After this non-stop day where he seemed particularly hell bent on making a mess of my house, the figures have been joined by a small red Hot Wheels Corvette race car parked next to one of the sheep, a half-drunk bottle of blue Gatorade, standing quite close to Joseph and a stray piece of pepperoni from the pizza we ordered tonight within spitting distance of the baby Jesus.
December 2002
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In all, 10 matches were contended on the day pitting Thai boxers against foreign competitors.
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Spitting in and littering of public places can be stopped by enforcing strict rules as well as fines and punishments.
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He was spitting blood after being hit in the mouth.
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Locals complained about spitting, loud voices and boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once the worst pitting and damage is filed away, he sands the metal with a coarse sandpaper.
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This afternoon, many people in the office turned to look at the darkening grey skies and the rain spitting on the windows.
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However, fluorescence has also been used to evaluate new storage practices, such as hydrocooling of cucumber and treatment of green bell pepper with the antioxidant diphenylamine to decrease chill-induced pitting.
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In March it will reopen as a glamorous hotel within spitting distance of London.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, regular spitting up or vomiting in infants associated with any of the following symptoms may be a sign of a more serious problem.
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Night had fallen sullenly over the storm ravaged waters of the Gulf of Mexico, with heavy drops of rain spitting down from the wet, grey, overcast sky.
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The fans, fed on a diet of caviar for so long, were spitting feathers.
The Sun
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This is no European event: this race is within spitting distance of Bonn and is the German Grand Prix in all but name.
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Bizarrely her office will be within spitting distance of mine, so I imagine that we'll be seeing a lot more of each other.
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Here I am in a boat, with fellow fisherman, Hal, pitting my newly acquired skills against the canny trout.
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They were spitting with fury at being deprived of their prey.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Nina looks the spitting image of Sissy Spacek.
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It is essentially just a dumb program spitting out information that it is given to pass on.
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He ran his mouth under the faucet, spitting the water back into the sink.
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Play aggressively and mess it up, you could be spitting feathers for the next half-hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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As soon as I was done, the cat started hissing and spitting and arched its back.
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A log fire was crackling and spitting in the hearth.
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Specialty vocal calls imitate sounds that dominant gobblers make, such as spitting, drumming and fighting purrs.
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It recognised that a policy that insists on equal terms for rich and poor is like pitting a bull mastiff against a chihuahua.
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Almost spitting the words, Julia steps into the room and sets her purse down on a polished mahogany table.
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The charcoal consists entirely of pycnoxylic coniferopsid wood characterized by 30-40 m diameter tracheids with contiguous, oval, seriate, alternate, bordered pitting on their radial walls and blank tangential walls.
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The youthful Yu Hua is something of a wise guy and a schemer, pitting himself against bureaucratic inanities.
Cultural Lexicon
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The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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In 1948 he married his first wife, and displayed his affection for her by spitting orange pips in her face.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once the worst pitting and damage is filed away, he sands the metal with a coarse sandpaper.
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There, with rich velvet Somerset ale, charcoal grilled steaks, and a spitting, crackling inglenook fiercely roasting away their dampness, they gradually returned to humanity.
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If it's only spitting , perhaps we don't need waterproofs.
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My eyes squinted up in pain and I briefly entertained the idea of spitting the food out and screaming loudly.
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On reflection, Marti's the spitting image of a panto baddie.
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However, instead of sending the document, the fax machine keeps spitting it out again.
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Spitting, marleys, fights, and rolling down hills are the ingredients that make up the lives of these two accidental friends from different parts of town.
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It is spitting with rain as the fans trickle into Headingley.
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The woman was practically spitting, although she was trying her best not to make a scene.
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Those were some of the most dangerous kinds of reptiles, spitting cobras, rattlesnakes, Komodo dragons.
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It was raining, probably only spitting at that time.
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Kurt popped up with his assault rifle and opened fire. Ash and Olivia were at his side, MA5Ks spitting rounds down the staircase.
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Hissing and spitting like an angry cat, Arach tried to free herself, but the man was strong.
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Mr. Coleman's last role was in the film "Midgets vs. Mascots," a self-proclaimed "shockumentary" pitting small people against sports mascots.
'Diff'rent Strokes' Star Gary Coleman Dies
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Sean Stiegemeier 3 months ago ive been looking for that airplane every time i go to iceland. found it this time, and there just happens to be a cano spitting out ash behind it not a kessler. they wouldnt help me.
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull - May 1st and 2nd, 2010 on Vimeo
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Therefore, litterbugs and those accustomed to spitting on the pavement no longer dare to give free rein to their impulses or else they'd better take along with them a waste-paper basket or a cuspidor whenever they opt for a stroll.
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On the streets you see and hear people clearing their throats from the pollution by spitting in the street.
The Sun
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Still a little bit gusty, a little bit of spitting rain on and off.
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She has had a son who is the spitting image of me.
The Sun
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That hatemongers still peddle their shopworn wares, disrupting lives, pitting neighbor against neighbor.
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Once inside the car, he kicked out at the interior door panels and windows, as well as spitting in the face of another police officer.
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YOUR SWELLINGS COME AND GO VARIABLY, but as he mentions nothing of your coughing, spitting, or sweating, the doctors take it for granted that you are entirely free from those three bad symptoms: and from thence conclude, that, the pain which you sometimes feel upon your lungs is only symptomatical of your rheumatic disorder, from the pressure of the muscles which hinders the free play of the lungs.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
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She put up a good fight, biting, kicking, squealing, and spitting at her two attackers.
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The vartabed who performed this service, used language fitted to stir up the worst passions of the people; many of whom being partially intoxicated, became so enraged that when the brother was conducted to the vartabed's room they grossly abused him, not only by words, but by blows and spitting in his face.
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I.
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Damage to instrument surfaces, including corrosion, rust, and pitting, also can result.
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Shocking though it is to hear of locals spitting into the gutter, the descent into howling barbarism is being quite successfully checked.
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They will be often be observed eating mussels from both reef and wreckage and also seem to favour winkles, which they pick delicately from kelp fronds before spitting out the remains of the shell.
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Appropriately, the band features a fabulous fat tuba player spitting out bass notes.
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After spitting out a stream of expletives, the boxer reportedly made a threatening move towards the knot of reporters before members of his entourage grabbed him.
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The metal used was a soft soda lime glass, which in inclined to pitting and will give a misleading impression of age.
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Paganism has proven to be the ultimate test of pitting intellect against emotion, and within that framework, it has been the healing salve for a broken spirituality.
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Regarding personal habits, you will meet few people who still manage snot and mucus in the traditional way by hawking it up noisily and then spitting, at least not in the city.
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The wind was cold and the air damp with spitting rain but Michael didn't care.
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Many had said that Karen was the spitting image of Anna's mother: blonde hair, small frame, and pale coloring.
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My favorite bookstores for buying books are any little used book store in any little touristy town, so when you're in, say, Sonoma, and you've tasted so much wine that you are getting a bit buzzy (because spitting is a sin because there are sober children in China), you can wander over to the used book store and breathe the musty smell and find treasures you've never heard of and can't wait to read.
Bookstore Appreciation Time!
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He was spitting blood after being hit in the mouth.
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It makes me sick of myself, to make such a fash and bobbery over a rotten end of an old nursery yarn, not worth spitting on when done.
Vailima Letters
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Spitting the bits down the basin, I feel the sudden pangs of personal loss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spitting on the deck might mean carrying a spittoon around; dirty clothing could mean a sailor was condemned to carry it for a certain time lashed to an oar.
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The climax of the musical is a whirling dance routine pitting a rugged Dr. Mahathir against the bookish Mr. Anwar, who is now Malaysia's top opposition leader.
Malaysia's Strong-Arm Leader, in Song
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Fields of water smack together, foam spitting and curling, but it's sheltered in our cove.
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On the domestic front, their idealistic Ward ‘n June Cleaver fantasy may have been conservative while we were still in spitting distance of the 50’s, but at this point it makes about as much sense as trying to turn society Martian.
Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’
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Til The Day I Day sounds like PJ Harvey circa Meet Ze Monster with it's dirty fuzz guitar and Shirley's low spitting intonation and shrill peeks.
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As Caspersen ushers the employee out the door, two of her coworkers circle a custom-made round table, sniffing, sipping, and spitting coffee from some two dozen samples.
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The surroundings: most of the great Burgundy vineyards are within spitting distance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Biovermiculation is limestone erosion and dissolution caused by bacteria over time in the form of pitting and etching.
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He elaborates this notion by pointing out how humorously out of place someone of ‘high culture’ and ‘refined’ taste would seem when placed amidst a group of spitting, catcalling men.
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In pitting against himself those who had so powerfully succoured him in his misfortune, Condé ought at least to have drawn closer to the Court and had a serious understanding with the Queen; but he tergiversated, and at the end of some months of that wavering policy, he found himself standing unmasked between the Court and the Fronde, both equally discontented with him, repeating and exaggerating the blunder committed by Mazarin.
Political Women (Vol. 1 of 2)
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My spitting glass was bouncing off of my torch mounted marver directly onto my neck.
Neck Constellations- What's Your Sign?
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After a few more seconds of spitting and hissing, Fluffy ran from Katie's sight.
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That would make Obama's early intervention in the race touchier, pitting the first African American president against the city's black community - if Emanuel was also a finalist.
In Chicago, it's not Rahm's for the asking
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Chinese geologists are pitting their knowledge, skill and modern technical equipment against nature in an effort to get more oil for their country.
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Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
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One sees here yet another variant of the revisionist tactics of pitting the old against the new.
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Slightly off-centre, a constant whirlpool swirls and churns turbulently, sometimes spitting up a boiling fount.
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Spitting at opponents is disgusting and uncouth and ought to be harshly punished.
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Who wants to go down town and see all the dirt and the filth, and the drunks, people spitting and weeing and defecating, which they do.
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Triathlon is arguably the toughest branch of athletics around, pitting competitors against each other across three very different fitness categories in an utterly exhausting combination.
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Galeano's little book of the past with Montevideo, Sao Paulo; when they caroused all night into the early morning hours the next day in the midst of hangovers spitting phlegm on the muddy tracks of grass making those spectacular goals to keep them from going back to the docks, factories and mines that always wait
Perfect
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Oh, begorra," the leprechaun added as Geno, too, rushed by, going to the aid of his friends and spitting curses with every step.
The Woods Out Back
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Josh ambled over to the garbage can, blowing one final bubble before spitting out his gum.
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As a result, many bankers' wives are spitting feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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My asthmatical disorder. which had not given me much disturbance since I left Boulogne, became now very troublesome, attended with fever, cough spitting, and lowness of spirits; and I wasted visibly every day.
Travels through France and Italy
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His eyes are the spitting image of Jack's and, except for the fact he is a towhead, his resemblance to his famous great grandfather is striking.
Bruce Knight - Jack London's Great Grandson
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China found itself up against the fruits of the British Industrial Revolution, pitting junks against steam warships.
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I though they made a glorious noise, they were very energetic (with two posey guitarists), and - the real clincher for me - the lead singer was the spitting image of dear ol’ Johnny Vegas!
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She opened her eyes and saw a blazing fire crackling and spitting at the men sitting around it.
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I was revolted by his dirty habit of spitting.
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He also received a further six weeks for contempt after spitting at a court official.
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Life on Mars (“Coffee, Tea or Annie”) – Slain stewardess turns out to be the spitting image of Annie, so she goes undercover to find the murderer.
Sci Fi TV Briefs – Kings Rules
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I hate the indecency shown by people by spitting and peeing on the roads.
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Before she could do a thing, Balac had sped in front of her, hissing and spitting at the Dragon.
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We live within spitting distance of the bus station.
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The puppet shot to fame on TV's late, lamented satire show Spitting Image, and is being sold off by the show's co-creator, Roger Law.
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It serves to split the working class, pitting unionized against nonunionized sections, to the mutual detriment of both.
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Barack people spited Clinton (and her supporters) this year (to the extent of figuratively spitting on them) but expect the support of her people this year.
As Convention Begins, McCain Ad Features Hillary Supporter For McCain
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As he rose from the loch, spitting salt, the wild delight in Lachlan's face was gone.
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It was small in the palm of his hand, and was the spitting image of a fish, with miniature scales and fins.
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If the Scripps Spelling Bee had been a Mark Burnett-style production, we'd have been treated to behind-the-scenes footage of players forming alliances, strategizing to trip up the frontrunners; Isabel Jacobson, the last female speller standing (you go, girl!), pitting the boys against each other by stage-whispering invitations to clandestine trysts; We'd "overhear" overstressed kids being browbeaten by parents who'd caught them peaking at comic books rather than practicing Croatian conjugation.
Brenda Scott Royce: Last Speller Standing
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He was spitting blood from a badly cut lip.
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If he were a cat, he'd be hissing and spitting by now, hair on end.
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The magistrates found Baldwin guilty of the charge of causing criminal damage, but dismissed the public order offence of swearing and spitting because of insufficient evidence.
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Lepra vulgaris was described as enlarging, sharply marginated erythematous plaques with silvery-white scale that occurred most frequently on the knees, and were associated with nail pitting.
ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
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Pitting two actresses against one another is catnip for fans of both, you know that.
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An old pub with beamed ceilings, smoke-blackened, and a log fire crackling and spitting inside a deep alcove.
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It was a simple test, pitting Gore's PTFE floss against standard nylon floss and asking consumers which they preferred.
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The tip of the stick is often driven into the cloth with force, weakening the structure of the weave, and pitting the playing surface.
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However, the child did have some spitting up and now has frankly bilious vomiting, being green in color.
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Setting aside for the time being post-modern notions of "best" or "better" (no doubt legions of MFAs are spitting out their Ticonderoga No. 2s in apoplexy), it seems reasonably clear that it isn't the best American book of the year, not by quite a bit.
Historical Fiction
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He was dragged out of the court, spitting abuse at the judge and jury.
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Besides, if folks want to have at him, they shouldn't have to enter his squalid den and endure the inevitable spitting and hissing from the corners.
Archive 2009-05-01
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It appears it will be spitting rain, grey skies and shorter days from here on.
Times, Sunday Times
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The last thing you want is an angry ex roaming around online spitting venom about you.
The Sun
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What started out as DJs spinning beats in underground clubs was now a scene that was spilling onto the streets, with dudes spitting out rhymes and b-boys freestyling to the beat.
Fallin’ Up
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Something about crows, yes, poor fellows, blow them off too, for now, so infuriated, they know the August blacksmith bellows to be a far cry; or November, pinhole in a parallax of sty, cataract, red-flecked polyp spitting flumes of snow.
The Last Words Of Julius Orange
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I don't know why: the sky is spitting rain at me again.
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The blithe spirit of the students perhaps best symbolises the fair that has evolved over the years, pitting the youngsters against their best peers.
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The third complained of a pleuritic stitch, and spitting of blood, for which Doctor
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Locals complained about spitting, loud voices and boorish behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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But amid the pulsating strobe lights, the loud thumping music, the hustle and flow of the crowd not to mention the fact that Yes, omigod, that is Tom Hanks, standing right there within spitting distance, can you believe it?
Starlit
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They face it every week, pitting themselves against tortuous terrain and filthy weather, recovering the fells' casualties without pay or team funding.
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Then, inspect the blades for pitting, nicks, dents, cracks and corrosion, especially on the leading edges and face.
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After initial qualifying, the team sprint takes the form of a face-off, pitting one team against another racing on the opposite side of the track.
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In experiments pitting the two in a Plexiglas arena, the metalmark faced down its nemesis time after time.
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Call the doctor if he is spitting up, drooling, vomiting, or if he has chest or stomach pain.
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Other incidents included violent disturbances, assault on a 23-year-old man, shouting threats to kill and spitting at residents.
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As a result, many bankers' wives are spitting feathers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having spent most of last night coughing, hawking and spitting, I really wasn't in the mood for the arrival of Lucy Smooth's workmen this morning.
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Clarice shrieked as a small crimson blur streaked towards her, hissing and spitting.
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All around her men and elves fell in bloody heaps, Krast spitting contemptuously on their broken bodies.
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Football refs treat spitting as worse than punching.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ahem: pardon me for spitting in the punchbowl, but she's always annoyed the cogs off me, and the situation isn't improving as we both get older.
Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Blind Date
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Old people bend over the boxes of fruit at a corner deli, squeezing each piece before making a selection, taking a bite from a pear and spitting it out.
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On a half-grown tree, the cat was stretched along a branch, spitting.
ON CATS
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It is still spitting rain today and the grass turns greener even I watch it.
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Chinese geologists are pitting their knowledge, skill and modern technical equipment against nature in an effort to get more oil for their country.
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The rain was still spitting down, though not heavy enough to make people stop their activities.
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More recently, the Warren Buffet-inspired tax debate, regarding whether millionaires should pay at least the same tax rate as the common worker, has surfaced fractiously, pitting President Obama and Democrats against most Republicans.
America cannot afford such inequality | Michael Shank
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More recently, the Warren Buffett-inspired tax debate, regarding whether millionaires should pay at least the same tax rate as the common worker, has surfaced fractiously, pitting President Obama and Democrats against most Republicans.
Michael Shank: Why 'Occupy Wall Street' Protests? America's High Rates of Poverty & Income Inequality
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The struggle here -- and elsewhere in Pinter's plays, or in THE PRISONER -- is in the undercurrents of dominance and submission of antipathic combat, in a gibberish that is unmistakeable as menacing, hectoring, shouting, frothing, spitting, pausing ... anger and disgust.
Archive 2008-09-01
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When Lyons regained consciousness, he was lying facedown on the ground, choking, gasping for air, and spitting up blood and dirt.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
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Can you exude charm when spitting out yoghurt?
Times, Sunday Times
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The rain finally came, spitting down, and she unzipped the section at the back of her jacket that revealed a hood, which she pulled over her head and tied under her chin.
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I enjoyed pitting my wits against other coaches.
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But what's normal and what's not when it comes to spitting up or vomiting in infants?
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The wet wood was spitting out sparks.
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For example, and also in England, Girl Guides are being sued by a teenager who was hit by spitting fat while cooking sausages around the campfire.
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Jo answered, spitting out each monosyllabic word.
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There he thumbed his mustache and stood amused in the company of an eager complainant, a man loud with the measliest grievance, pink-eyed and spitting.
Underworld
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The Florentine Codex lists chocolate as an ingredient in cures for stomach pain, diarrhea, and "the spitting of blood.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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He's the spitting image of his father.
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The last thing you want is an angry ex roaming around online spitting venom about you.
The Sun
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Some of them were spitting at the buses as we passed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some municipalities fined citizens for spitting or removing their respiratory masks.
Globe and Mail
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It is faddism of the worst kind and if I was one of the people who has come on to this site spitting tacks because they are a genuine sufferer I would also hate them.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Dressed head to toe in yellow she looked the spitting image of the cute character.
The Sun
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In his parable, two old women climb the mount of Nelson's Pillar and start spitting plum stones on the Dubliners around them.
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In his very funny portrayal of the scene - the carabineros turn up with a giant water cannon which the locals call The Spitting Lama - he gives a horrific eyewitness account of an old woman being beaten up.
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The liquid jet as it strikes the solid surface can cause localized erosion and surface pitting.
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Jackson has spent his last three albums in a spitting rage about perceived harassment, character assassination and general obloquy.
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Ahem, it is in fact naive to expect graciousness from the swearing, spitting, frothing HA crowd.
Sound Politics: The Netroots...(Sigh)
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In April 2002, he was jailed for six weeks for contempt of court for spitting at a police liaison officer in court.
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It strikes Shaftoe as typical – he supposes that the books say completely different things and that the chaplain is deriving great pleasure from pitting them against each other, like those guys who have a chessboard on a turntable so that they can play against themselves.
Pitting Books Against Each Other « So Many Books
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He's the spitting image of his mother.
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Another featured animal is the Scottish wildcat, which can be heard spitting and snarling on the disc.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the same fight as it had been nearly fifteen hundred years before, only they were less hostile and weren't spitting their words out carelessly.
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He thinks of jefes politicos, rurales, the strike, the lockout, hunger, General Rosalio Martinez, the soldiers of Porfirio Diaz and their death-spitting rifles, of flatcars of bodies consigned to Vera Cruz as shark-food, his father and mother among them.
“Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
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The P-type cell has scalariform pitting typical of most modern vascular plants.
