Sentence examples for bloody pit from inspiring English sources
But in a February op-ed in The San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Pacelle wrote that Amazon "was selling 27 books, monographs and magazines about cockfighting," and if "your passion in life is watching tormented birds tear each other to pieces, in a bloody pit," then "Amazon is the place to go".
Dogs -- more than 450 -- who were destined to fight to the death in the bloody pit were saved and taken to emergency shelters.
Those bloody conflicts pitted protesters in the gentrifying Lower East Side, where hipster bars abutted housing projects, against the police.
A bloody struggle pitting Islamic State militants against forces once loyal to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and Sunni tribes is only a matter of time, many analysts say.
In 1891 a brief but bloody civil war pitted the president against parliament, and resulted in a severe reduction in presidential power and the rise of a parliamentary republic.
In imperial Rome, Mr. Hughes reports, an estimated one person in three was a slave, and ordinary citizens were kept in line with free food and state-sponsored festivities, which included chariot races, melodramatic plays and bloody gladiatorial combat pitting man against man or man against beast.
As many women as men were among them.These people have no memory of the bloody street battles pitting left against right before the army took power in 1980, nor of the inept and corrupt politicians who drove the economy into the ground in 2001.
There is one stylishly choreographed and very bloody set-piece which pits Firth against a Church full of southern bigots while the explosive, eye-popping finale references The Last Night Of The Proms in a witty way.
Historically, the holiday is a direct result of the bloody Pullman strike, which pitted the railroads against striking railway workers in 1894, and it celebrates the labor movement, then and now.
FIVE years after the end of a bloody civil war that pitted Sri Lanka's ethnic-Sinhala-dominated government against members of its Tamil minority, fears are growing about mounting violence along another of the country's fault-lines religion. On June 15th Sinhala Buddhist mobs rampaged through three towns on the southern coast, burning and attacking Muslim businesses and homes.
