Example Sentences
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The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
Dickey pithed three-hit ball for seven innings as Toronto romped past Boston.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit.
From Time Magazine Archive
I conceive, that if you put enough Ox-marrow, you need no butter; and that it may do well to add Ambergreece, Dates-sliced and pithed, Raisins, Currants, and a little Sugar.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
He commends Parsley roots to be in greatest quantity, boiled whole, if young; but quarterred and pithed, if great and old.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
