Sentence examples for pit from inspiring English sources

Now they see the pit into which that end-of-history triumphalism has led them.

The price is at the high end, so if you're seeking a more fast and affordable pit stop, head to Harvest Bakery, right next door, serving light food and coffees, and why not take a warm loaf for the road.

It's a chance to lose yourself in the pleasures of childhood escapades - dirt, occasional nudity and malt loaf pit stops.

Madeline Willis Doubtfully, the four of us look down at the coils of rope affectionately known as the snake pit; then up at the 90ft mast above our heads.

If McGowan does upset the odds and win – she is placed at around $3.50 by Centrebet, down from more than $50 at the start of the campaign – it's unclear how well her values of inclusiveness and consensus will fare in the Canberra bear pit.

It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.

Thatcher had to contemplate possible power cuts and a three-day week if the threatened strike by Nacods, the pit deputies' union had gone ahead.

He marched alongside Arthur Scargill during the difficult days of opposition to pit closures and the miners' strike of 1984, but was ready to admit privately to his doubts about Scargill's controversial leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Once the world's biggest mining village, thousands were thrown out of work when the local pit closed in 1986.

In the dense city and slums, sanitation often means open defecation, the use of bags or chamber pots emptied into rubbish heaps or canals, or the construction of crude, shallow pit latrines – everywhere and anywhere.

When they closed the pit they ripped the heart out of the community.