sling stresses either the use of whirling momentum in throwing or directness of aim.
slung the bag over his shoulder
Examples of pitch in a Sentence
Verb (2)
needed help pitching a tent
when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake
the ship pitched in the choppy sea pitched the baseball almost 50 feet
we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again
the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers
the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow Noun (2)
the daring pitch of the escaped prisoner into the swirling ocean waters at the base of the cliff
the steep pitch of the roof makes it too dangerous to walk on
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
After tallying 85 pitches, Schumaker called on Huascar Brazoban from the bullpen.—Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 4 July 2024 What can be bigger than throwing the first pitch at a New York City ball game?—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2024 On four occasions, Estes needed less than 10 pitches to complete an inning.—Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 3 July 2024 The switch-hitter won the battle against Mariners starter George Kirby, fouling off five pitches before poking the right-hander’s 10th offering for a seeing-eye single.—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 3 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for pitch
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English pich, from Old English pic, from Latin pic-, pix; akin to Greek pissa pitch, Old Church Slavonic pĭcĭlŭ
Verb (2)
Middle English pichen to thrust, drive, fix firmly, probably from Old English *piccan, from Vulgar Latin *piccare — more at pike
First Known Use
Noun (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Verb (1)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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