Sentence examples for of a precipitous from inspiring English sources

By November, with Apple stock in the midst of a precipitous decline, they were still bullish.

A first performance of a new opera is the start of a precipitous journey.

Among the disgraced works was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain".

It marks the bottom of a precipitous fall for a man who once was the president of Interpol.

The centerpiece is a tree precariously growing at the edge of a precipitous bluff, with its twisted roots laid bare by erosion.

'We are in the eye of the storm," says Sami, the moustachioed owner of a tiny café perched on the edge of a precipitous canyon.

Battlefield Earth's scathingly bad reviews and poor word-of-mouth led to a precipitous falling-off in its grosses.

Eventually, the overstocking of salmon led to a precipitous decline in the alewife population, and starving salmon began washing up on the same beaches that had been littered with alewife several decades earlier.

Exposure to CD + CCl4 results in suppressed tissue repair owing to an energy deficit in hepatocytes as a consequence of excessive intracellular influx of Ca2+ leading initially to a precipitous decline in glycogen and ultimately to hypoglycemia.

Politicians are trusted by just 15% of respondents – a precipitous 6% drop even on the level of trust they enjoyed this time last year.

"Reflektor" knocked Katy Perry's "Prism" (Capitol) to No. 2, with sales of 92,000, a precipitous drop from the 286,000 that brought the disc to the top spot last week.