Pitfalling

"Pitfalling" in a Sentence (10 examples)

able to shew us the ways of the Lord straight and faithful as they are, not full of cranks and contradictions, and pitfalling dispenses

But always with my future as Nicholas's illustration of moral pitfalling possibilities.

If one is looking for evidence of last-days decadence in New York during the pitfalling 1970s—which had an entirely different feel from the money-first decadence of the 1980s, except that obth involved turckloads of cocaine—you wouldn't have to look much further than Studio 54.

Here is all the evidence of which we are at present cognizant; but is it not almost enough to start a party for New Zealand in the hope of trapping, toiling, or pitfalling, —anything but shooting, —the biggest bird in the world, and bringing it alive to England, as the crown of the Knowsley and the Regent's Park menageries?

Hunting, poisoning, trapping, pitfalling and other types of extermination campaigns are carried out and are sometimes organized by local authorities.

When pitfalling in dry areas, birds and other animals soon learn where to get a drink.

Now, falling in love is one thing, but pitfalling is another. A man dislikes the thought of being trapped into a marriage.

It may take some trying and pitfalling, but the end result will be a lot more satisfying than George Babbitt's uniform.

Pitfalling can be by commission, when grouping members do something that gets them into trouble. Pitfalling can be by omission, when grouping members fail to anticipate and avoid, or to address and work through, a problem.

To exemplify such constraints and appropriately conclude the chapter, our last example will be an actual case of pitfalling (a recent one of ours!) .

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