Sentence examples for precipitous down from inspiring English sources

On a year-on-year basis the fall was even more precipitous, down 28.9%, making it the biggest year-on-year faller as well.

The first movement of No 3 goes with an elegant swagger; the third is playful, Kraggerud's violin tumbling down precipitous slopes.

The last few miles were a steady climb back up to 2,000 metres, then a precipitous drop down to Popradske Pleso.

Despite its fast growth, St. Charles County has been spared the precipitous ups and downs of the housing markets on the coasts, said Mark Stallman, chief executor of the St . Charles County Association of Realtors

Suddenly, five tumbled down a precipitous slope.

The sacks are then sent down a precipitous chute to the sea, and loaded on to ships.

This supposed civilisation beheads its victims and throws them down the precipitous steps of pyramids to appease bloodthirsty gods.

At first you could reach it most easily by boat, or by scrabbling down a precipitous path through the olive groves to the sea.

We head for a distant corner of the park and Nordic walk up and down a precipitous hill that I would never have otherwise attempted.

On Afghanistan, he said he thought that Republicans "would feel comfortable standing with the president" because the "likelihood of defunding the war, and a precipitous withdrawal, is going down".

On its meandering course, the trail rolls over prairies and mesas, dipping in and out of the region's precipitous Badlands, up and down hundreds of vertical feet per mile in sections.