pit against

Example Sentences

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As more women entered the genre, some were uniting on hit records such as “Ladies Night,” while others were pit against each other.

From Seattle Times

Bucks coach Don Nelson, recently a Celtic and well involved in much of Boston’s physical approach over the years to stopping the rival center — especially in those ’74 playoffs — had a top draft choice to pit against Abdul-Jabbar in that opener.

From Los Angeles Times

Pit against one another, they prove to be their father’s children, in both their business acumen and ethical flexibility.

From Washington Post

On “Drama Queens” the hosts talk openly about the challenges they faced, including the impossible beauty standards they were expected to live up to, being young and mostly inexperienced in show business, being hypersexualized, with limited control of their character’s fates and being pit against one another on and off the set.

From New York Times

On Wednesday evening, the network announced its plan to retool “The Activist” from a reality show into a primetime documentary special spotlighting the efforts of six activists — likely the same six it originally intended to pit against one another before celebrity judges Usher, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Julianne Hough.

From Los Angeles Times