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
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At the Texas facility, set to open this month, Union hopes to produce more than 300,000 shells next year, according to a company pitch deck shared with seed investors in January.—David Jeans, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025 The system even recognizes when the user is trying to sing and can change the pitch to match simple melodies.—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
Verb
Connect Through Empathy And Value Alignment In the nonprofit space, building trust early means demonstrating a genuine understanding of your audience’s mission and challenges—not just pitching services or products.—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025 The show gained momentum at the Asian Television Forum in December 2022, where executive producer Michelle Chang pitched the concept to The One Enterprise.—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitch
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English pich, from Old English pic, from Latin pic-, pix; akin to Greek pissa pitch, Old Church Slavic 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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