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pitch

You can stop making your pitch, Brandon.

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It wasn't bad enough she had to pitch her cookies in front of him, now she was going to cry.

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It was pitch dark and rainy.

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I invited him to pitch shoes with me but he wouldn't have any of it.

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"You be careful now," Leo called after him, "it's pitch black over there on the beach."

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She was in the middle of every pitch and fully supported each note.

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She sang right in the middle of every pitch and had a lovely vibrato.

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There were three bedrooms but the largest one, presumably belonging to Howie, was located in the rear of the house where it remained pitch black.

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Dean had opted to pitch his tent in City Park.

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It was pitch black in the bedroom where I was supposed to get the suit.

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Quinn returned to the hospital but Betsy and I remained at Howie's side in the pitch dark room.

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I threatened him with a pitch fork and told him to get out and not come back.

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His curiosity and agitation, like that of the whole crowd, reached the highest pitch at this fifth murder.

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"Lise!" said Prince Andrew dryly, raising his voice to the pitch which indicates that patience is exhausted.

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Any note may be a pitch note; for orchestras custom has settled upon a' in the treble clef, for organs and pianos in Great Britain c 2, and for modern brass instruments b flat'.

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The pitch of the screw is the same as that of the measuring screw (50 threads to the inch), and its motion can be limited by a stop to half a revolution.

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He further tells us this pitch was a tone, nearly a tone and a half, higher than a suitable church pitch (Chorton), for which he gives a diagram.

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Praetor ius's Cammerton, or chamber pitch, formulated in his diagrams for voices and instruments, is, he says, a whole tone higher; equivalent, therefore, to a' 475.65.

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PITCH The pitch of a musical sound is aurally defined by its absolute position in the scale and by its relative position with regard to other musical sounds.

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A young forest growing up under your meadows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch pines rubbing and creaking against the shingles for want of room, their roots reaching quite under the house.

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