Sentence examples for of precipitous from inspiring English sources

But isn't that sort of precipitous?

The images here constitute a requiem for an American empire in a state of precipitous decline.

It also matches Homer's description of "precipitous promontories" that jut into the sea.

The federal cuts would follow a decade of precipitous declines in supplementary financing of Head Start by some states.

Trading in financial stocks like Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland was briefly suspended on Monday because of precipitous declines.

The Tsitsikamma (pronounced tit-see-KAHM-mah) offers 50 miles of precipitous coastline, where forested ravines drop into unruly seas.

MUCH has been made of the precipitous decline of America's newspapers.

Breathe in the pine-scented air and stretch your legs on the hillside paths of this precipitous chunk of green, five minutes from downtown by car (or 15 minutes on the efficient MAX Light Rail).

Don learns of the precipitous firing of his children's lifelong nanny while meeting with his accountant about selling the house in Ossining and the place in California where Anna Draper was living.

The U.S. can blunt the momentum of the precipitous decline of the peace process -- and provide a different and better path -- but unless the parties own up to their own leadership deficiencies, their futures will remain in an intertwined freefall.

They become confused, and hence obscure, only as a result of the precipitous, false judgments of childhood.