Sentence examples for great cliffs from inspiring English sources

The ancient Buddhas carved into the great cliffs on one side of the valley are gone, destroyed by the Taliban in its Islamic fundamentalist fervor.

More than a century ago, the governors of New Jersey and New York decided that the great cliffs along the lower Hudson River deserved protection from builders, quarries and homesteaders.

On a walk after they first arrive, Cat and Maya encounter great cliffs looking onto the ocean, misty vistas, a fanciful, empty beachside arcade with a cute boy inside.

The Pueblo III period was the time of the great cliff dwellings.

And what a start, to quote the late, great Cliff Morgan.

This cliff, which is called the Great Cliff or the Cliff of Angavo, is often impassable and is itself bordered by the Betsimisaraka Escarpment, a second and lower cliff to the east, which overhangs the coastal plain.

It is a charming, rather old-fashioned seaside town with a beach and great cliff walks and has strong ties to Charles Dickens.

Southwestern cultures came to be characterized by complex pueblo architecture: great cliff houses with 20 to 1,000 rooms and up to four stories.

Yosemite Falls crash 739m in three tiers down a great cliff of rockface – and in particular draws crowds in late spring when the water is most plentiful and powerful.

Another great cliff-top walk starts about 20 minutes' drive from Wigtown at St Ninian's Cave, to the coastal village of the Isle of Whithorn.

With an ill wife (Ayelet Zurer) Hinds has moved his family to the precipice of a great cliff, hoping to build a home.