Sentence examples for a pit of a from inspiring English sources

It turns out that he is about to leave the city and move to West Covina, California, a pit of a town in the Inland Empire.

Tyler Wetherall Is the always of No Way Home: A Memoiregretted on the Run (St. Martit's Press, 2018).

A pit of snakes.

A pit of bottomless despair?

Associates may grumble that the firm is a pit of back-stabbing, a machine that grinds young lawyers down.

It is more readily thought of as a pit of instability than as a source of opportunity.

Smashed concrete spills on to the road, encircling what has since turned into a pit of rubbish – a pockmark on the face of Havana's fading grandeur.

From here, the plot is a plunge — over the edge of a cliff, out of a hospital window, into a pit of ordure, and so forth.

He gave the example of a mother jumping into a pit of fire to save her child as an act of pure compassion.

Mr. Pinckney stood near the fence watching Rakeem Marshall, 13, and his stepbrother, Ocyrus Minto, 9, build a ramp leading to a pit of foam noodles.

On a road with suburban homes, swimming pools and minivans, a 12,000-year-old mastodon has turned a quiet backyard pond into a pit of scientific inquiry.