Sentence examples for pitch raised from inspiring English sources

Football supporters would be surprised if they turned up at Wembley to discover that the game was going to be played on a temporary five-a-side pitch raised on a platform above the turf.

"His performance on the pitch raised the bar when he arrived in 2006 and was a pivotal factor in our back-to-back promotions.

The song's melody is based on sampled keyboards from P.Y.T. by Michael Jackson, with the tempo slightly decreased and the pitch raised to the point its sound resembles squealing shrieks.

"It's useful when tuners have to do a quick pitch raise," she said, referrring to a special, time-consuming tuning for every key on pianos that have not been tuned for a long time.

The music, which buzzes with brittle little dances, snappy percussion and instruments doubling the singers at extremes of pitch, raises an eyebrow in the direction of Thomas Adès's Powder Her Face: it's no surprise to learn that Coll is Adès's pupil.

The average successful pitch raises £15,000 from 500 supporters.

The notions of "sibilant pitch" or "whisper pitch" raise the question of whether speakers make use of this perceptual phenomenon in speech communication by systematically changing the spectral energy distribution of the speech sounds they produce.

Pitching raised her blood pressure and strained her heart.

But the Mets have other needs, and their commitment to Bay — and, by extension, making offense a priority over pitching — raises a question about their overall strategy: Instead of signing Bay to make an already good offense better, would they be better off pursuing John Lackey to improve an inconsistent rotation?

Semitone by semitone, the pitch is raised.

Before every pitch, Stavrenos raised his radar gun and aimed at home plate.