Sentence examples for a sheer drop. from inspiring English sources

The wind ripped and chewed through everything, and the water was a sheer drop down.

On one side there is a sheer drop down to the sea about 100m below.

This rock is perched on a cliff, behind which is a sheer drop of 500-600ft.

Vast windows overlook a sheer drop to the crater floor and a panorama that stretches forever.

Hiking like a Mongol, Spindler got lost, and every attempt to go down ended at a sheer drop.

There was a tussocky grassy hillside, falling steeply away to a rocky lip, then a sheer drop into the stream.

South of town, I encounter my first hellaciously windy road with fog and a sheer drop-off, and my driving anxiety returns.

The numerous hairpin bends are lost in the swirling mists until we are already on top of them with the back wheels of the bus dangling over the edge of a sheer drop-away cliff.

On-coming cars are to our left, a sheer drop-off is to our right, if my son swerves either way, we are toast!

I missed feeling awe at the sight of a sunset, at a sheer cliff drop, at the beauty of a church or a temple, at the love in the eyes of those who are at worship.

But standing on a promontory of the pathway, the Sentiero degli Dei, on the lip of a sheer cliff that dropped a half-mile to the sea, I saw no reason to dispute the name.