Sentence examples for precipitous of from inspiring English sources

Off to the right, the W8 wriggled to the escarpment's edge before plunging just over a vertical kilometre on the most precipitous of paths to the remote village of Balad Sayt.

The mountain sports 3,168 skiable acres (47% of them black-diamond grade), above-the-tree-line bowls and precipitous out-of-bounds opportunities.

MUCH has been made of the precipitous decline of America's newspapers.

While Desgabets rejects the Scholastic rendering of the motto, he is equally critical of Descartes's precipitous evaluation of it.

In "Glacier Channels, Valley of the Yosemite," the precipitous angle of the sloping mountainside and dark shadows of the trees suggest calamity and isolation.

The operon model of Jacob and Monod marked thus the precipitous end of the simple, informational concept of the molecular gene.

A five-year string of record growth from 2003 through 2008 ended in a precipitous drop of 28 percent in the value of business aircraft delivered from 2008 to 2010.

To some extent, the modest uptick in income and standards of living reflects the precipitous growth of the Texas-Mexico border.

Because of the sudden and precipitous nature of its demise, it is believed that the piglet died as a result of inadvertent intravascular injection of LPS.

In those 20 years we have watched fortunes rise and fall from the steady climb and staying power of Bill Gates to the precipitous decline of Yoshiaki Tsutsumi.

The story of the fraudulent rise and precipitous fall of the company and its entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes, is also the singular story of the journalist who chronicled the company.