Sentence examples for a precipice between from inspiring English sources
CLEVELAND, Oct. 11 — After a short life of chaos and neglect, the teenager who opened fire on Wednesday against classmates and teachers in a downtown high school seemed to stand on a precipice between improving his life and throwing it all away.
It seems closest to Poland or Slovakia - some place that has recently joined the EU and is "a world slipping and sliding on a precipice between the dark rockface of Communism and the seductive, light-filled void of the liberal market".
That said, you're probably still the same person at 30 as you were at 29. Yes, life changes and new responsibilities arise that we have to adapt to, but the idea of seeing one experience, one birthday, as a precipice between young and old age is ridiculous and puts a huge amount of pressure on us, which is only going to lead to disappointment.
The man may be speaking to himself or to a ghost, but in any case, in the expressed fragments of his memory, which Mr. Pinter renders in a mix of thrillingly precise details and linguistically fuzzy ones, he is on a terrible precipice between the past and the future, looking back with grief and regret and ahead with fear and despair.
They have described a precipice.
We are on a precipice here.
Think of skid marks ahead of a precipice.
Chávez has left Venezuela peering down into a precipice.
The rouble is on the edge of a precipice.
Everyone in this artful novel is hovering on a precipice.
