Sentence examples for precipitous descent from inspiring English sources

And the precipitous descent is continuing.

Over three decades, Nichols's life took a steady, then precipitous, descent from middle-class respectability to incomprehensible violence.

It was such a precipitous descent that circuit breakers kicked in, limiting the ability to short Groupon shares for the rest of the day.

Likewise, the "Disgracers," wanna-be heroes whose insolence is punished by precipitous descent, are both terrifying and ridiculous in their tumble through space, all foreshortened limbs, jaws, and noses.

Matt Barkley finally heard his name called Saturday at the start of the fourth round of the N.F.L. draft, but after his precipitous descent, football players are going to hear Barkley's name much more often.

Many of them in 2013 when she won the World Cup series and World Championships in a near- perfect performance of brute force and ballet precision, blowing away the opposition, taking 4 minutes 28 seconds to make a precipitous descent that a rambler might ponder for half a day, and even then resort to crampons and guy ropes.

Made for a modest $15m, Slumdog Millionaire sees Boyle emerging once again from his own story of remarkable rises and precipitous descents.

To avoid future "endos" on precipitous descents, I stood with my weight over the rear wheel, gripping the seat with my thighs.

Alps trips from £549pp, flights extra, ledomestiquetours.co.uk What the Alps and Pyrenees are to road riders, southern Spain's Sierra Nevada national park is to mountain bikers: endless rolling trails and precipitous descents, with the advantage of a benign climate that permits year-round riding.

It was a precipitous fall.

It sure beats watching another precipitous fall.