How do you use the word "pitch" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pitch": Everybody will have to pitch in to save the environment. It was pitch black outside.

Pitch Meaning

/pɪt͡ʃ/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.

nounA dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.

Sentence Examples

Everybody will have to pitch in to save the environment.

It was pitch black outside.

Pitch the tent on level ground.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

sky delivery toss

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

The shipbuilders used natural ____ to waterproof the hull.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The sales team prepared a compelling ____ to present to the investors at the morning meeting.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”" — 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14:

"Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report." — 2008 July 15, Edward Morgan Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Letters Between Forster and Isherwood on Homosexuality and Literature, Palgrave MacMillan:

"If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out]." — 2013 February 26, Dale E. Basye, Snivel: The Fifth Circle of Heck, Yearling, →ISBN, page 162:

"For some of us postpartum depression is the pitchest black we have ever known. From the dark womb we welcome new life, and our own new life, a life we haven't known, unfolds[…]" — 2016 August 30, Mandy Arioto, Starry-Eyed: Seeing Grace in the Unfolding Constellation of Life and Motherhood, Zondervan, →ISBN, page 19:

"“The two men of Alltraighe maintain, Two chiefs of the plain of Kerry, A clan the most active in pitch of battle, Their chiefs are O’Neide and Clan Conary.”" — 1845, Owen Connellan, Annals of Ireland: Translated from the Original Irish of the Four Masters, page 179:

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