Sentence examples for precipitous and from inspiring English sources

Mornings are fateful, cliffs are precipitous and rivers rage.

Its coasts, especially on the west, are rugged and precipitous, and its interior is mountainous.

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

(Many executives found fault with Alexander's precipitous and unattractive post-conquest, third-act decline).

Fences, he says, are the only way to stop the precipitous and continuing decline in the number of African lions.

"We expect a rapid, precipitous and material decline in Plavix net sales," company officials wrote in the 2011 annual report.

Shevelow recreates Charlotte's prodigious theatrical rise and precipitous fall, and her enigmatic life offstage as a cross-dressing single mother and memoirist.

Still, five other patients at the Doctors Without Borders hospital have exhibited symptoms — intense, precipitous diarrhea and vomiting — and are being isolated, tested and treated for the disease.

Guides lead trekkers up precipitous verges and across rivers, and rusty machetes are used to hack paths through the thick, thorny rainforest.

Next to the hotel runs a disused railway line that proves popular with joggers and cyclists and affords a view of the precipitous cliffs and hidden bays.

Not surprisingly, the fortunes of window manufacturers are tied closely to housing construction and have followed the same precipitous rise and fall.