Sentence examples for pitch stick from inspiring English sources

A player must sublimate his ego to embrace an unorthodox pitch; stick with it despite inevitable poundings when the knuckleball refuses to dip, dart and flutter; and be athletic enough to field squib hits when a batter makes contact.

By contrast, if it turns out that the Conservatives are able to point to nearly two years of growth plus some steady, even if modest, increases in wages and incomes, they will feel confident making their electoral pitch: "Stick with us and bigger gains will find their way into your pocket while we finish the job on the deficit".

The subtle ingredients of racial hysteria are there to try and make the pitch stick.

The Nord Stage includes a spring-mounted wooden pitch stick, and a ceramic mod wheel, similar to the Nord Lead and Nord Modular synthesizers.

Sound on Sound criticised the pitch stick on the Nord Stage, noting its range is permanently fixed to two semitones and cannot be adjusted.

There's millions of people watching and here I am, this one little guy, coming all the way around the pitch sticking corner flags in".

Alternately, you pick them out by hand, if you don't mind getting resinous pitch stuck to them.

They better hope the sales pitches stick, because it's getting hard for viewers to keep up.

Another example of online pitches that stick around is a humorous e-mail service sponsored by CareerBuilder, the job-search Web site, called Monk-e-mail.

Before that, we were asked to stand up and do our "60 seconds" – a snappy "elevator pitch" that sticks in the mind of other members so they can refer business to us more easily.

They have taken on board what we have tried to do on the training pitch and stuck to game plans".