Sentence examples for pitches from inspiring English sources

But their comments were only the most blatant overtures among a series of thinly-veiled pitches for the party's nomination to take on a Democrat for the job of commander-in-chief in November.

Quite apart from most players detesting such pitches, a handful of key England performers, including Steph Houghton, the influential captain, are still working their way back to match fitness following lengthy lay-offs and would have much preferred the rather more forgiving feel of grass beneath their feet.

In order to concentrate the listener's perception on the rhythm, melodic material – most of it pinched from a book of Lithuanian folk tunes – is extremely simple, sometimes reduced to tiny repetitive patterns of a mere two or three pitches.

If every player reacted in a similar manner to Cantona, football pitches would be sparse places come the end of 90 minutes.

"You can play a five-a-side out there [on the training pitches] and they all want to win.

Six of the sections – or pitches as they are known – on Dawn Wall are rated 5.14 in the American Yosemite Decimal system, which rates how hard a section is, with two at the very top end of 5.14.

There are 160 pitches but they are well spread out, some under the shelter of conifers, others in more open spaces.

Both Sophie Fiennes's Jones doc and Loveridge's MIA adventure have benefited from successful pitches for BFI funding last year; an ovation is deserved.

Parker, who has been tending Test pitches for nearly 18 years, said, "I anticipate it's going to be very similar to what we've seen here last year.

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Firth said there were daily internal battles in London about what could be aired, with routine material like pitches and scripts having to be signed off by top-level officials in Moscow.