pitchedpitched /pɪtʃt/ adjective 
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- After a pitched battle, no less than 29 of the gang were arrested.
- In 1867 forty-three gypsies pitched camp in the Cours la Reine and aroused much hatred among the Rouennais.
- Only five feet seven tall, he spoke in a high pitched drawl, a public school accent he often emphasized abroad.
- The other type of offence involved in effect a preconceived and premeditated pitched battle, often accompanied by the use of weapons.
- There followed a pitched battle at a bridge across the Dnestr river leading into the town.
- There were pitched battles, so they lay in wait for you.
- Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.
- We had to staple a polythene vapour barrier to the rafters of a pitched roof.
WORD SETS
arcade, nounarch, nounarchitect, nounarchitecture, nounatrium, nounbailey, nounbastion, nouncampanile, nouncapital, nouncaryatid, nouncloistered, adjectivecolonial, adjectiveconservationist, nounCorinthian, adjectivecornice, noundolmen, noundome, noundomed, adjectiveDoric, adjectivefloor plan, nounflying buttress, nounfolly, nounGeorgian, adjectiveGothic, adjectiveground plan, nounIonic, adjectivemodernism, nounmonolith, nounmonument, nounmonumental, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveobelisk, nounopen-plan, adjectivepedestal, nounpediment, nounperistyle, nounpitched, adjectiveplinth, nounplot, nounportico, nounquadrangle, nounrambling, adjectiverampart, nounrococo, adjectiveRomanesque, adjectivescreen, nounspan, nounsplit-level, adjectivesquare, nounstonework, nounterrace, nountracery, nountransept, nountruss, nounvaulted, adjectivevaulting, nounvestibule, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Sanders gave a low whistle when he saw the contents of the box.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
a pitched roof is sloping rather than flat· The young man gave a high-pitched giggle.
(=with parts that slope down)· a row of garages with tiled pitched roofs.
(=with a very high sound)· The sound of gunfire mingled with the shrill screams of the injured.
Sanders gave a low whistle when he saw the contents of the box.· After a pitched battle, no less than 29 of the gang were arrested.· There were pitched battles, so they lay in wait for you.· They must fight pitched battles, and fight in a body; and they must begin fighting as far forward as possible.· But if it came to a pitched battle, the phalanx of heavily armed, well-mounted knights was a very formidable weapon.· There followed a pitched battle at a bridge across the Dnestr river leading into the town.· It is surprising, therefore, how seldom armies joined in pitched battle in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.· The scene was all set for a pitched battle.· There are few archers or hand gunners who can stand against decent combat troops in a pitched battle.
· We had to staple a polythene vapour barrier to the rafters of a pitched roof.· Timber fascias and barge-boards are standard, while many pitched roof garages feature timber-clad gable ends.· Octagonal cupolas covered by flat pitched roofs were still normal crossing space covering.· The traditional greenhouse shape is a rectangular floor area, near-upright sides and a pitched roof.· High pitched roofs contain the typical ornamental dormers.· It has rubble-stone walls and its steeply pitched roofs make the granite-capped chimneys seem all the higher.· But Ireland is like four pitched roofs built around a central depression.· The late Gothic façades are surmounted with steeply pitched roofs containing tall dormer windows.