Sentence examples for precipitous on from inspiring English sources

And yet, Seneca laments to his mother, "What other rock is so barren or so precipitous on every side? . . .

Due to the speed of its decline, which is reported to have been "precipitous" on Caye Caulker between 2003 and 2008, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature has assessed the species as near threatened.

But on Yukness, big patches of snow still covered the trail, including one long stretch that curved up and around the mountain with a precipitous drop on one side.

The chart showed a precipitous drop on clicks on lower-ranked items.

The path skirts a vineyard, then veers up into the woods, emerging onto a corniche — a natural terrace with a rocky overhang on one side, and a precipitous drop on the other.

Hanging directly over the stairway, with a room on one side and a precipitous drop on the other, is the "mother-in-law's door," as Mr. Dumont called it.

The monastery, a one-story hut balanced on an outcropping with precipitous drops on all sides, was surrounded by a four-foot-wide ledge that offered panoramic views of the fertile Tigrayan plateau.

Today the via ferrata allow walkers to take on precipitous routes without the need for climbing equipment and ropes, and are a great way for families to take their walking holidays to the next level.

At one point, when the car made a precipitous turn on the cliff-hugging road, the camera did not follow it but kept flying out and over a pristine mountain lake.

The dollar took a break from its precipitous fall on Thursday after the Fed's action on Wednesday.

Bennett mightn't have left St George Illawarra better than he found them but no-one at the Dragons would swap that premiership for a less precipitous drop on his departure.