How to use "pit" in a sentence

She heard his frightened voice calling to her, and she peered over the edge of the pit, and he was so far below her that his face was only a tiny, pale smudge

He was desperate to get out, and she was frantic to rescue him; but he was chained, unable to climb, and the sides of the pit were sheer and smooth, so she had no way to reach him

Then a man dressed entirely in black from head to foot, his face hidden by shadows, appeared at the far side of the pit and began to shovel dirt into it

She edged around the pit, determined to make the hateful bastard stop what he was doing, but he took a step away from her for every step that she took toward him, and he always stayed directly across the hole from her

She had to get down to him and push the earth away from his face before he suffocated, so in blind panic she threw herself over the edge of the pit, into the terrible abyss, falling and falling-

On the right, beyond the craps tables, halfway down the long room, elevated from the main floor, the white-marble and brass baccarat pit catered to a more affluent and sedate group of gamblers; at baccarat, the pit boss, the floor man, and the dealers wore tuxedos

When Michael's break time arrived, a replacement dealer took over the table, and Michael stepped out of the blackjack pit, into the center aisle

But I'm tight with the pit boss

She had tried to encourage him to seek advances in his own career - from dealer to floor man to pit boss to higher casino management - but he had no interest in climbing that ladder

"I dream he's alive, trapped somewhere, usually in a deep pit or a gorge or a well, someplace underground

Bruckster hadn't been able to get close to Evans when the dealer left the blackjack pit at the beginning of the break

I now believe that this was a fire built to make an enormous gun in a very deep pit

He remained standing on one side of the pit that the Thing had made for itself, staring at its strange appearance and thinking that there might be some intelligent design in its shape

For a minute he hardly realized what this meant, and although the heat was great, he climbed down into the pit to see the cylinder more closely

He stood undecided for a moment, then climbed out of the pit and started to run into Woking.

When I got there, I found a little crowd of perhaps twenty people surrounding the great pit in which the cylinder lay

I climbed into the pit and thought I heard a faint movement under my feet

Going to the edge of the pit, I found a group of men in it - Henderson, Ogilvy, and a tall fair-haired man I afterwards learnt was Stent, the Astronomer Royal, with several workmen holding spades

A large part of the cylinder had now been uncovered, although its lower end was still hidden in the side of the pit.

The crowd around the pit had increased to a couple of hundred people, perhaps

There were raised voices, and some sort of struggle appeared to be going on around the pit

I heard a peculiar humming sound from the pit.

I saw a young man - I believe he was a shop assistant in Woking - standing on the cylinder and trying to climb out of the pit again

I half-turned, still keeping my eyes on the cylinder, from which other tentacles were now coming out, and began pushing my way back from the side of the pit

I found myself alone, and saw the people on the other side of the pit running off

It had fallen over the edge of the cylinder and into the pit

They were all very frightened, but still interested in the strange happenings in the pit

The crowd around the pit seemed to grow as new people arrived

Black figures in twos and threes moved forwards, stopped, watched, and moved again, getting closer and closer to the pit.

Suddenly, there was a flash of light and bright greenish smoke came out of the pit in three separate clouds, which moved up, one after the other, into the still air.

Slowly a dark shape rose out of the pit and a beam of light seemed to flash out from it.

All along a curving line beyond the pit, the dark ground smoked

Then the humming stopped and the black, rounded object sank slowly out of sight into the pit.

They may stay in the pit and kill people who come near them, as they cannot get out of it

They were busy in the pit, and there was the sound of hammering and a column of smoke

It ended with the words, 'Although they seem frightening, the Martians have not moved from the pit into which they have fallen, and don't seem able to do so.'

What does it all mean? The Martians can't get out of their pit, can they?'

As it was reported later, most of them remained busy with preparations in the pit on Horsell Common until nine that night, doing something that produced a great amount of Black Smoke.

The cylinder had gone right through it and made a large hole in the ground, much larger than the pit I had looked into in Woking

We now lay on the very edge of the enormous round pit that the Martians were making.

The cylinder was already open in the centre of the pit, and on the furthest side one of the great fighting-machines, empty now, stood tall and unmoving against the evening sky

However, at first I hardly noticed the pit and the cylinder, because of the strange shining machine that I saw working there, and the odd creatures that were crawling slowly and painfully across the earth near it.

Down on the left a busy little digging-machine could be seen, sending out small clouds of green smoke and working its way round the pit, making it bigger and piling the earth up over the top

The Martians at the bottom of the pit could no longer be seen, because the earth around it was now so high

A fighting- machine stood in the corner of the pit

The Martians might only stay in this pit for a short time, then move on

The Martians had taken away the digging-machine and apart from the fighting-machine on the far side of the pit and a building- machine that was busy out of my sight, the pit was empty

Instead of staying close and trying to move me away from the pit, the curate had gone back into the hall

Except in the corner, where a number of birds fought over some dead bodies, there was not a living thing in the pit.

There were two ideas in my mind - to get more food and to move, as quickly as possible, away from the pit.

'I was buried near the pit the Martians made around their cylinder

Great piles of earth had formed around a pit at the top of the hill - the final and largest one the Martians had made - and from behind these piles thin smoke rose against the sky

In another moment I had climbed a pile of earth and stood on its top, and the pit was below me

I stood staring into the pit, and my heart grew wonderfully happy as the rising sun lit up the world around me

The pit was still in darkness

I heard a large number of dogs fighting over the bodies that lay in the darkness at the bottom of the pit.

Across the pit, on its further edge, lay the great flying-machine which they had been testing in our heavier atmosphere when disease and death stopped them

All around the pit, and saved from everlasting destruction, lay the great city

They knew of it in Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester and Birmingham at the time when I stood on the edge of the pit