Sentence examples for edge of precipice from inspiring English sources

12 to go... 30/7/14: New York's Metropolitan Opera labour dispute: a symptom of a company in crisis 6/6/14: New York's Met opera house on edge of precipice, says Peter Gelb.

The same knots that are used in boating are used in mountaineering - when Gillette ties a line on to a sea anchor, he does it with the agility of a man who has the other hand on the edge of precipice.

Tandavanitj points to science fiction author JG Ballard's The Drowned World as a point of reference how the novel's characters exist on the edge of precipice (in a world flooded by climate change), but simply keep going with a lack of sentiment.  .

The rouble is on the edge of a precipice.

You peek nervously over the edge of a precipice.

It is like being on the edge of a precipice.

This is unison dancing on the edge of a precipice.

That could be a disaster: the country is on the edge of a precipice.

These are people struggling to survive on the edge of a precipice.

I didn't, of course, until I was at the edge of the precipice.

Gibbons's radical cantilevers, he says, "danced at the edge of a precipice".