Sentence example with the word 'pitting'

pitting

Definition n. the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion

Last update: September 20, 2015


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They'd never trusted one another enough to share, and their father made things worse by compartmentalizing the Council's business and pitting the sons against one another long before he was killed.   [Please select]

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A faint pattern of pitting radiates on the surface from the center of ossification of the frontal.   [Please select]

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No bone of this animal shows the deep pitting and heavy ornamentation characteristic of many primitive Amphibia.   [Please select]

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Success has also attended the pitting of selling districts against each other.   [Please select]

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I'd never descend to scheming and plotting and pitting my fascinations against another woman--" "Oh, damn your aristocratic highfalutin pride.   [Please select]

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Hunt (1957:20) presumably was referring to shell pitting by a more suitable name when he wrote of, "."   [Please select]

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Pits on the shell from unknown causes ("shell pitting") are less common in ornate box turtles than in other kinds of turtles.   [Please select]

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This is a great game--cheese-mites pitting themselves against all the splendours of Death.   [Please select]

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As he cantered back he heard the major's bass pitting him against the field, and for a moment again the spot of blue seemed to spread over all the watching stand.   [Please select]

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Small rounded pits in the bony shell (shell pitting) due to causes other than mechanical injury, are found in nearly all kinds of turtles according to Carpenter (1956), Hunt (1957), and my personal observation.   [Please select]

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