Sentence examples for precipitous ascent from inspiring English sources
The two men go through similar arcs of precipitous ascent, weird adventure, positive cash flow, high living, abundant white powder, and then trouble.
He defected from Cuba to the United States when he was 15, and he has engineered a precipitous ascent since being selected No. 14 over all during the 2011 draft.
The RTS was in a Yukos-induced slough for last year and the first half of this one, before investors decided that the worst was over, and the index began its precipitous ascent (see chart).
Hull's fall from grace has been as precipitous as their ascent was provocative.
Jake Bugg's ascent to fame may have been precipitous, but his idea of showmanship remains remarkably minimalist.
One was familiar, of course, with the rapid ascent of her cultural star, as precipitous in its way as the fabled discovery of Lana Turner at a drugstore counter.
Platini's meteoric ascent as an administrator after his true greatness as a player, and now his precipitous fall, traces precisely the arc of his involvement with Blatter and the games the president played with him.
The earliest ones were narrow, precipitous, almost improvised spaces, tucked into the classical campaniles and Gothic belfries that topped those pioneering buildings; the decks were reached through tiny penthouse elevators and steep staircases, in a staged ascent not unlike mountaineering.
It was a precipitous fall.
Their fall has been precipitous.
