How to Use pitched battle in a Sentence

pitched battle

noun
  • 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, 2019-07-22
  • Chalk up those losses to Ant’s pitched battle with Tencent Holding Ltd.
    — Liza Lin, WSJ, 2018-05-03
  • 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, 2019-07-12
  • During a violent protest in another part of the capital this week, protesters, some masked, fought pitched battles with police.
    — NBC News, 2019-12-19
  • Two innings later, Altuve ended a seven-pitch battle with Peters by dumping a double in left field.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2019-08-24
  • 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, 2019-09-09
  • The protests have repeatedly sparked pitched battles with police and have taken their toll on Hong Kong's nightlife and travel industries.
    — Arkansas Online, 2020-01-01
  • This was followed by a campaign of terrorist bombings across Hong Kong and pitched battles between protesters and police.
    — Antony Dapiran, CNN, 2019-06-14
  • Only a few years ago, by contrast, the chief threat was not just irregular terrorism but also rocket and sniper attacks, kidnappings, drive-by shootings, and pitched battles in the streets.
    — Antony J. Blinken, Foreign Affairs, 2012-07-01
  • Owning Flipkart would be one of the starkest examples of Walmart's pitched battle with Amazon moving overseas.
    — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 2018-05-04
  • 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, 2018-03-17
  • 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, 2018-06-25
  • 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, 2018-03-03
  • 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, 2019-09-01
  • 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, 2019-11-24
  • 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, 2018-05-22
  • 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, 2021-09-28
  • 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, 2019-09-27

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