Sentence examples for precipitous terrain from inspiring English sources

The project was regarded as an engineering triumph because of the precipitous terrain.

Throughout history, the area has attracted beleaguered minorities and insulated them in precipitous terrain.

Rising 2000 m over as little as 8 km, the Marojejy Massif has some of the most precipitous terrain in Madagascar.

The island, rising sharply out of the sea like a creature of the deep, is known for its pretty, precipitous terrain.

Because the burning terrain is so precipitous and lined with tinder-dry vegetation from years of drought and fires, firefighters have to be incredibly careful in their approach, officials say. .

The terrain of the North Island is much less precipitous than that of the South and has a more benign climate and greater economic potential.

Outside the coastal area, its terrain consists largely of karstic plateaus and ridges, magnificently precipitous Alpine peaks, and (between the elevated areas) valleys, basins, and arable or pastorally useful karstic poljes.

It was a precipitous fall.

Their fall has been precipitous.

Perspicacious or precipitous?

Fertility decline is not some precipitous event.