Sentence examples for stone pitching from inspiring English sources

The back jacket features photographs of Stone pitching for the White Sox and the Cubs, and he insisted on one cosmetic point.

The external embankment face is grassed whilst the internal face has stone pitching over the upper part and concrete over the lower part.

Sloping banks are readily protected by close-laid stone pitching, by bundles formed of interwoven willow branches, or by bituminous carpet; more permanent protection is provided by steel or concrete piles, which are close-driven, overlapping or interlocked, and protected against impact damage by horizontal fendering above the waterline and by roughly tipped rubble below the waterline.

But even if this is the first decisive small stone pitched against a national shame, its specific effect on the imprisoned will still be minimal.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet But even if this is the first decisive small stone pitched against a national shame, its specific effect on the imprisoned will still be minimal.

"We have done a lot of work, making sandbags and stone pitches to build up the embankments," he said.

"They are monsters, devils, they need to be stoned," bellowed Hania Malwilein, a 53-year-old housewife pitching stones over the chicken-wire fence.

A pale blue silk jacket, encrusted in stones and pitched tightly at the waist, had a series of suspenders built in the hem, so that it turned under in soft, swept-back folds.

When they first emerged in the 1960s, The Stones were pitched as Byronic bad boys to the 'clean-cut' Beatles (in truth, their off-stage appetites and excesses were not dissimilar).

A stone-cold beauty, pitching on off and seaming away, of delivery beats Bell's outside edge by a whisker and the stumps by not much more.

The mayor, who to this day admonishes reporters to mind their own business and stay out of his private life, comes across as pitching stones from his glass house.