Sentence examples for possibly precipitous from inspiring English sources

Coal is at a crossroad, either resolving its environmental challenges and regaining its competitive edge, or suffering a possibly precipitous decline with ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

Down in 12th place, Chen Kaige's neo-wuxia Monk Comes Down the Mountain, covered in last week's column, dropped a pretty precipitous 78% – possibly hounded out by the flashier contemporary offerings.

"Perhaps I was too precipitous," he said.

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

Despite the precipitous decline in Sun's market value, no other company has expressed interest in a buyout until recently, very possibly a result of the complexity of integrating the company's interconnected server, software and storage divisions.

It was a precipitous fall.

Perspicacious or precipitous?

Their fall has been precipitous.

Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.

"The situation is very precipitous.

The fall can be precipitous.