A pit yawned not six feet in front of her, a gigantic, malodorous pit that belched black smoke and orange flames.

They crossed a jagged, boulder-strewn ridge, and a long, narrow black pit yawned beneath them like a doorway to hell.

In the smooth bottom, the cellar-like pits yawned darkly and unfathomably.

A wide, black pit yawned before her.

A pit yawned in her stomach.

Soon a pit yawned beneath the doomed ship's bulging side.

A pit yawned, an open basement.

Matt's car was gone, taken by the men who had deserted him, and the pit yawned wide!

The pit yawned.

Yawning in the floor, in front of him, was a pit covered with an iron grating set in the floor.