Sentence examples for pit yet from inspiring English sources

Ms. Grigsby runs a tight pit, yet the spirit is loose, without tension.

Spun another way, the charges boil down to this: Democrats want to sink the taxpayers' money into the giant government money pit, yet again.

NHS detractors warn that the service is a "bottomless pit", yet all it needs is roughly the EU average, and for spending to rise with living standards.

The season's first "Don Carlo" at the Metropolitan Opera on Dec. 29 was one of those nights when most of the forces for a splendid account of the work were assembled on stage and in the pit, yet for whatever reasons the performance just did not take off.

He didn't actually do any work as there was no-one else turning up at the pit, yet hundreds saw fit to make his life a misery - each and every day.

The medical marijuana law passed by New York state senate two months ago is a patchwork of compromises – each one pitting yet another obstacle in the way of those looking to enter the market.

Since that first incredible discovery in 1974, archaeologists have unearthed approximately 2,000 full-sized terracotta warriors and horses from three ancient pits, yet the terracotta site is in fact only a minor component of a much grander tomb construction under which lie thousands of treasures waiting to be excavated.

A longtime colleague called him "a well-organized pit bull". Yet his opponents sensed that his will to win did not trump his commitment to fairness.

The Broadway general manager Alan Wasser blames the decline in the use of live musicians on changing tastes in music ["The Orchestra Pit Grows Yet Emptier" by Zachary Pincus-Roth, Dec. 26].

A sequence in which the young inmate slips his restraints and winds up with his teeth around a prison officer's testicles has the muscular ferocity of a pit bull, yet even in these moments we are aware that Eric is himself a victim – the core credo of Asser's script.

After a routine night at the long jump pit into yet another increasingly tense time during these United States Olympic track and field trials, Marion Jones and her coach disappeared together from the track Monday into the darkness of a back exit.