Sentence examples for precipitous death from inspiring English sources

But much like a therapist, her silence teases out his secrets, the still-fresh pain of his wife's affairs and her precipitous death.

In a time when many novels featured far more fantastical and over-the-top narratives ― the popular Gothic romance The Mysteries of Udolpho, which featured an unscrupulous Italian nobleman, a remote castle, a number of precipitous deaths and a very weepy heroine ― Austen's stories of ordinary Englishmen and -women courting at country dances and in drawing rooms were on the restrained side.

Noble wrote, "The fantastic disorder of the rock masses that form the precipitous mountain ranges bordering Death Valley imparts a quality of strangeness to the scenery that is felt even by the casual visitor".

This while only a harbor away in New York, historically low violent crime rates continue to plummet; indeed, almost every other metropolitan area in the US has seen precipitous declines in these deaths.

Then came Blake's neck injury, his father's death and a precipitous drop to No. 94 in the year-end rankings.

When Ms. Wood breaks her hip in a fall, it begins a precipitous decline that ends with her death.

An initial spike in serum fibrinogen levels in susceptible mice on day 3 p.i. was followed by a precipitous drop (Fig. 3D) before death.

But he paid the price for all that in the precipitous decline of his reputation after his death".

It seems that old age, blindness, the death of friends and the precipitous decay of culture and public morality were "challenging" to Thurber.

An initial spike in serum fibrinogen levels in susceptible mice on day 3 p.i. was followed by a precipitous drop (Fig. 3D) prior to death.

Weight loss was precipitous and was evident 1 week before death.