Sentence examples for Somewhat precipitous from inspiring English sources

"Our latest cell service satisfaction survey revealed a somewhat precipitous decline by Sprint that shuffled the rankings of the major standard service providers," said Glenn Derene, electronics content development team leader for Consumer Reports.

"This has been a pretty precipitous fall".

That's a pretty precipitous 50-point slide backwards.

In terms of the fitness landscape, the fitness peaks to which the networks have evolved in both stable and noisy environments are somewhat intermediate between broad plateaus and precipitous spires, which would allow for some near-neutral variation to persist in mutation/selection balance.

That is somewhat more complicated in this case, because precipitous changes in the middle of a war could mean a loss of continuity and institutional knowledge.

A Saudi decision to constrain production is somewhat more likely sooner or later, given the precipitous decline in government revenues.

In this context the designations "revolutionary" and "reform" are often employed in a somewhat different sense than that described above, with the implication that a revolutionary movement advocates rapid, precipitous change while a reform movement works for slow, evolutionary change.

Twelve of us were wedged — somewhat precariously, I thought — in one of Asif's Pajeros, as he drove us along a precipitous mountain road on our way to an old hill station of the Raj for a family outing.

It had reached its IPO price of $14 again in December before a precipitous drop in February that was followed by strong quarterly earnings in early March that somewhat rebounded its momentum.

It was a precipitous fall.

Their fall has been precipitous.