Sentence examples for precipitous relief from inspiring English sources
Most residual chains and individual mountains are characterized by low elevations; however, both gentle and precipitous relief can exist, depending on the degree of recent erosion.
Although Puerto Rican relief is relatively low by continental standards, the island sits less than 100 miles (160 km) south of a precipitous depression in the Earth's crust: an extensive submarine feature of the Atlantic known as the Puerto Rico Trench, which descends to more than 5 miles (8 km) below sea level the Atlantic's deepest point at a site northeast of the Dominican Republic.
It was a precipitous fall.
Their fall has been precipitous.
Perspicacious or precipitous?
Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.
Monsignor Wallin's fall seems precipitous.
"The situation is very precipitous.
The fall can be precipitous.
It sure beats watching another precipitous fall.
And the precipitous descent is continuing.
