How to Use pitting in a Sentence

pitting

noun

• Her face had some minor pitting from the chicken pox.
• The car's paint showed some pitting from flying gravel.
• The body came out flat and smooth, with no rust and only very minor pitting.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2020
• The body came out flat and smooth, with only minor pitting.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2018
• The pitting is typically filled in with clear epoxy, then it gets sanded down to a smooth surface.
  — Alyssa Longobucco, House Beautiful, 2 May 2023
• The ease of pitting makes Corals and pies or jam a relationship worth exploring.
  — Lesley Stiles, The Mercury News, 31 May 2017
• The severe temperature and pressure also blew off the ground strap at the end of the spark plug, and even the cast-iron cylinder liner showed some pitting.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2022
• Alabama opens the season against the Seminoles in Atlanta on Sept. 2, just the fourth opener involving top-five teams and the first pitting teams ranked in the top three.
  — Ralph D. Russo, The Seattle Times, 21 Aug. 2017
• Some viewed the close battle as a pitting of the Sanders wing of the party, as channeled by Perriello, against the Clinton wing of the party, represented by Northam.
  — Miranda Green and Eli Watkins, CNN, 13 June 2017
• The rust caused small perforations known as corrosion pitting, which eventually formed a crack that snapped under the weight of a passing train.
  — Martine Powers, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2018
• To avoid pitting or other damage to the surface, never use abrasive tools, harsh cleaning products, or acidic ingredients such as vinegar or lemon juice to clean these sinks.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2022
• The paint quality is outstanding, with good leveling and the ability to hide surface pitting and small imperfections.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2023
• But psoriatic arthritis can cause other health issues, too, including fatigue, nail pitting, and eye pain.
  — Cassie Shortsleeve, Good Housekeeping, 27 Aug. 2021
• Any damage from moisture problems, oil contamination or pitting will be fixed prior to painting.
  — Jennifer Rude Klett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 May 2021
• There’s no word on the family-values politics that would turn the 2000s into a culture war pitting offended, letter-writing conservatives against edgy anti-PC bros.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 29 July 2021
• Critics say Castroville got played — a false pitting of one underserved community against another.
  — Rosanna Xiastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2022
• But its shortcomings are essentially those of the novel: its single-track didacticism; its neat pitting of romantic idealists against macho, insentient normies; and the fact that a decisive plot twist can be spotted a mile off.
  — Houman Barekat, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• The latest New Horizons images show vaguely hexagonal ripples, perhaps from the circulating of those soft ices, and widespread pitting, most likely due to the direct evaporation of parts of the solid-ish surface (a process known as sublimation).
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2015
• Instead, Da-Rin creates tension not as a simplistic pitting of the old against the new, so to speak, but as a constant generational negotiation and series of concessions motivated by familial love.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024