Sentence examples for precipice with from inspiring English sources

Today's Poetry Pairing matches Jill Alexander Essbaum's "Precipice" with two New Year's pieces about time.

We ended up pinned on a ledge above a precipice with both of them looking at me.

Edging towards the precipice with his fascination for detail, Nelsons somehow always holds the work secure and intact.

In 2013, Tunisia was at a political precipice, with the growth of an underground extremist movement and the assassination of an opposition politician.

They struggled at the precipice, with Delacruz screaming that if he was going off the bridge Lagrimita was going with him.

The whole NHS seems to be teetering on a precipice, with everyone ploughing on, but unable to ignore that this is unsustainable without proper funding and better staffing.

Hundreds of crater-formed hills from which volcanic material once flowed, seaside precipices with waterfalls, and lava tunnels (or tubes) are international sightseeing attractions.

They developed extraordinary climbing skills, scaling thousand-foot precipices with cowhide ropes to harvest fulmar from the cliffs of Hirta, puffins from the Dun — a dinosaur spine of an islet, broken off from Hirta a few centuries ago — and gannets from two great sea stacks.

A generation later, Tom, a banker in hiding, stands on the precipice, toying with the possibility of oblivion, and a mysterious hitchhiker exhorts a young driver to veer off the high coastal road and into the sea.

But when there is suffering, and great loss, and our hands are tied, we stand at the precipice along with those we've lost.

Parramatta are a club on the precipice of disaster with a season that opened with much hope lurching into the all too familiar territory of bottom of the ladder woe.