Sentence examples for precipitous flight from inspiring English sources

Its statement acknowledged that Chapo had narrowly escaped, and said he suffered two minor injuries in his "precipitous" flight.

The 27th did not participate in the Battle of South Mountain, by which the Union cleared Lee's men out of the mountain passes, but they saw abandoned equipment and "a large number of dead rebels," as they passed through Turner's Gap, leading them to conclude "that the flight of the enemy had been precipitous".

As the speech approached, Mr. Medvedev faced intense pressure to calm nerves in Russia, crippled this fall by capital flight, a plunge in the stock market and a precipitous drop in oil prices.

Then you think of poor François Hollande, who came to power in France promising massive reform and redistribution of wealth, and promptly witnessed the flight of capital and talent, a rise in unemployment, and the precipitous decline of his popularity that was only reversed by the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

It was a precipitous fall.

Perspicacious or precipitous?

Their fall has been precipitous.

Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.

"The situation is very precipitous.

The fall can be precipitous.

Monsignor Wallin's fall seems precipitous.