Sentence examples for less precipitous from inspiring English sources

Maybe not, though there might have been less precipitous routes.

Below Stavanger the coast is less precipitous, and there are fewer islands.

December is also expected to show a decline, though less precipitous.

Captain America: Civil War might also mount a challenge, if its current rate of decline becomes less precipitous.

WHAT YOU'LL PAY Compared with some neighboring communities, where new development drove up prices that then fell during the recession, Matawan has seen a less precipitous price drop.

The terrain of the North Island is much less precipitous than that of the South and has a more benign climate and greater economic potential.

Physics couldn't care less if precipitous action raises gas prices, or damages the coal industry in swing states.

But Mr. Pataki quickly re-embraced the fiscal conservatism he'd abandoned in fatter times, and merely suffered a less-than-precipitous drop in the polls.

Recently states seem less prone to precipitous swings from one end of the political spectrum to the other.

It seems to me that neither Newman, Rothko nor Pollock was possessed of remarkable natural facility, yet each went on to achieve far more than, say, Adolf Gottlieb, William Baziotes or Robert Motherwell, whose adept and characterful draughtsmanship and feel for their materials made the process of invention a less urgent and precipitous task.

Decades of poaching and culling and habitat loss, they claim, have so disrupted the intricate web of familial and societal relations by which young elephants have traditionally been raised in the wild, and by which established elephant herds are governed, that what we are now witnessing is nothing less than a precipitous collapse of elephant culture.