Sentence examples for a precipitous cliff from inspiring English sources

A baby ibex on a precipitous cliff edge.

Esalen's lush campus tumbles down from Highway 1 toward a precipitous cliff above the ocean -- as usual, it's easy to pass by without noticing.

The northern end of the mountains also terminates in a precipitous cliff at the Sea of Japan, but the descent to the west is more gradual, merging into the Hida Highlands.

Is there a precipitous cliff edge at the end of this dark tunnel, at the bottom of which is a hellish mix of dead coral, flooded cities and discarded soft porn tapes starring Donald Trump?

We walked out of the town, up steep narrow alleys, shaded by trees and flowering shrubs, and blessedly free from motorised vehicles, to the ruined Villa Jovis which the Emperor Tiberius built as his retreat on the edge of a precipitous cliff from which those who offended him were hurled to their deaths.

In an infamous sequence, the lemmings reach the edge of a precipitous cliff, and the voiceover tells us that "this is the last chance to turn back, yet over they go, casting themselves bodily out into space".

There's nothing like the achievement of scaling a precipitous cliff-face with nothing but your bare hands (well, and a few ropes and harnesses).

But 2016 saw a precipitous drop in the number of executions in the state.

I'm jogging through an arctic wasteland: a barren, jagged landscape punctuated by precipitous cliff drops, perilous ice columns and the scant remains of civilisation – a crumbling rope-ladder here, a shipwreck there.

A crane lurks behind the bushes, next to a pile of blocks awaiting their place at the top of the precipitous cliff face.

The mountains of southern Crimea form the only precipitous cliff areas.