How to Use pitched battle in a Sentence

pitched battle

noun

• She has been in a pitched battle with her ex-husband over custody of their children.
• Chalk up those losses to Ant’s pitched battle with Tencent Holding Ltd.
  — Liza Lin, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• In the second inning, Christian Vazquez won a nine-pitch battle with another home run over the oversized wall in left field.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• There were pitched battles against the forces de l’ordre that ended with the demonstrators bloodied and driven back under a wave of truncheons.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• Eventually the rookie won an eight-pitch battle by tripling to the gap in right-center, stretching a one-run Brewers lead to 6-3.
  — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Sep. 2019
• Suter put a great at-bat on Weaver, winning a nine-pitch battle by grounding a double past first baseman José Martinez, who got some leather on the ball.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 May 2018
• The protests have repeatedly sparked pitched battles with police and have taken their toll on Hong Kong's nightlife and travel industries.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 Jan. 2020
• And that’s just how most of Fortnite’s pitched battles end—in spastic competitions to raise zig-zagging siege towers, each player looking to gain high ground over (and cover from) the other.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2018
• Two innings later, Altuve ended a seven-pitch battle with Peters by dumping a double in left field.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2019
• This was followed by a campaign of terrorist bombings across Hong Kong and pitched battles between protesters and police.
  — Antony Dapiran, CNN, 14 June 2019
• Owning Flipkart would be one of the starkest examples of Walmart's pitched battle with Amazon moving overseas.
  — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 4 May 2018
• During a violent protest in another part of the capital this week, protesters, some masked, fought pitched battles with police.
  — NBC News, 19 Dec. 2019
• All indications point to business not politics as the source of the tensions, and at any other moment, the Trump Organization and its army of lawyers might have relished this sort of pitched battle.
  — Kirk Semple, Ben Protess and Steve Eder, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• The movie’s MacGuffin — the thing all the characters want — is a rare and glowing element called Coaxium that is supposed to power ships into hyperspace but that mostly just powers the plot from one double-cross and pitched battle to the next.
  — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• There was renewed outrage at the intensity of those clashes this week, after police and pro-democracy activists fought pitched battles on the streets across several districts of the city on Sunday.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• The European Union kicked off debate on its budget once the U.K. departs, setting up what is likely to be a long and pitched battle between wealthier countries and newer members who rely on funding from the bloc.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 2 May 2018
• Protesters, chanting pro-rebel slogans and demanding the end of Indian rule in Kashmir, blocked a major highway and fought pitched battles with government forces.
  — Aijaz Hussain, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2018
• On Wednesday, protesters set buildings alight, damaged the local parliament and airport and engaged in pitched battles with police, authorities said.
  — Tria Asmara and Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 22 Aug. 2019
• Since the unrest broke, protesters have disrupted traffic, smashed public facilities and pro-China shops, and hurled gasoline bombs in pitched battles with riot police who have responded with volleys of tear gas and water cannons.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Protesters largely avoided pitched battles with the authorities, however, retreating and moving around the city quickly.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 22 Sep. 2019
• Protesters have smashed storefronts of businesses seen as sympathetic to China, torched toll booths, shut down a major tunnel and engaged in pitched battles with police, countering tear gas volleys and water cannons with torrents of gasoline bombs.
  — Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• Protesters have smashed storefronts of businesses seen as sympathetic to China, torched tollbooths, shut down a major tunnel and engaged in pitched battles with police, countering tear gas volleys and water cannons with torrents of gasoline bombs.
  — Eileen Ng, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• The ensuing decades of post-WWI labor unrest, mass strike actions, and pitched battles between workers and bosses created a powerful modern legacy of widespread working-class organizing and robust political thought on the American left.
  — Kim Kelly, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
• With his small team of lawyers, Letter is locked in pitched battles with the Trump administration, which has vowed to fight all congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony — and resisted cooperating with House impeachment proceedings.
  — Washington Post, 25 Dec. 2019
• Protesters are demanding its full withdrawal, democratic elections and an investigation into alleged police brutality in what have been pitched battles with hard-line demonstrators.
  — Fox News, 1 Sep. 2019
• The pitched battle over the landscape of American democracy for the next decade is underway in state capitals across the country, as lawmakers begin drawing lines for congressional and state legislative districts based on the 2020 Census.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024