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Free sign upThe phrase "a pit in the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in various contexts, often to describe a physical location or a metaphorical situation that is difficult or challenging.
Example: "After the long hike, we finally reached a pit in the valley where we could rest."
Alternatives: "a hole in the" or "a gap in the".
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They go through hours and hours of work cooking it in a pit in the garden.
It's not a pit, in the strictly speaking sense; it's a strip of pavement above the playing fields.
I once visited a health clinic in Bihar where employees dumped medicines in a pit in the ground, so they wouldn't have to dispense them.
They dug a pit in the sand, lined it with black polythene, covered it, filled it with seawater and waited for fresh water to condense on the top.
In essence, each hair is a cylinder of compacted and keratinized cells growing from a pit in the skin the hair follicle.
Insofar as a pit in the ground can be said to be an "invention," various East Coast Native American tribes are credited with it.
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It was fear more than inspiration ― a pit-in-the-stomach anxiety that all the work they'd put in over the last eight years, the policies they'd helped pass and the political structures they'd promoted, was now under direct assault.
The fire was sparked by embers from a pit in which the couple had been burning brush.
Two were given with live music performed from a pit in front of the screen, silent-movie style.
I still get a pit in my stomach, Alan said of the latter.
The son of a miner in a pit village in the north-east, he lived in dread of the colliery siren that signalled an accident in the mine.
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