Sentence examples for a sheer cliff from inspiring English sources

Cain said it was not a sheer cliff, but was a significant, rough slope.

The path down to the hole, descending a sheer cliff, was narrow and slippery.

It's set on a sheer cliff with the ocean crashing 180 metres below.

The climb culminated in a 20-foot metal ladder up a sheer cliff.

The highway here had been blasted from the side of a sheer cliff wall.

On one side, it is bordered by a sheer cliff, on the other by sloping sheep-nibbled grassy fields.

Other nature-based highlights included the walking route to Baia do Sancho, which involves negotiating two ladders on a sheer cliff-face and feels moderately adventurous, until you realise that it's regularly tackled by old ladies in flip-flops; and a lunch of freshly caught barracuda at Bar do Meio on the Praia do Meio, frigate birds circling overhead.

Herein, data on anopheline species diversity and abundance, implication in malaria transmission, their survivorship, host-seeking behavior and subsequent malaria stability index are provided for three sites in Western Cameroon, spread out over an altitudinal transect, starting from a lowland plain, across a forest sheer cliff, then a highland plateau till a hilly landscape.

But if I did venture past that sign and into the sun-dappled wilderness beyond, all the way down to a stunning sheer cliff with a sweeping view of Puget Sound and the rocky shore below, I have no doubt I'd see something a lot closer to the Lummi Nation's vision of the land as a place of peace and sacred spiritual beauty than Lauri Hennessey's ideal industrial zone.

The appeal of the train ride from Riobamba to Sibambe is two-fold: first, you get to trundle past the many mighty peaks of the Avenue of the Volcanoes; second, you can thrill at the twisty descent down the Devil's Nose, a 765m sheer cliff somehow conquered by a masterstroke of engineering - though this masterstroke closed for repairs in early 2010, hopefully to reopen (for the brave) very soon.  .

Other sources have pointed to Muhammad's skill at building a road full of hairpin turns up a nearly sheer cliff, in order to shorten the royal family's commute to the summer palace in At Taif.