Sentence examples for precipitous turn from inspiring English sources

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.

These sensible souls take such pride in their refusal to stray from the straight and narrow that they are utterly thrown off balance when their luck takes a precipitous turn for the worse.

But the schools' fiscal agony took a precipitous turn last year when statehouse Republicans decided that an encouraging postrecession increase in revenues was the perfect moment for a huge tax cut, rather than for the overdue restoration of school aid to levels mandated under the State Constitution.

If housing were to take a precipitous turn, it would be devastating.

L.'s relationship with Dr. N. took a precipitous turn in the winter of 1997.

"The continuing violations and systematic failings simply heighten international anxieties over the possibility of a precipitous turn, an event of great centrifugal consequence, which could rapidly engulf the region," said Zeid. "If the international community is serious over reducing tensions in the region, more must be done collectively to ensure respect for human rights in the DPRK".

Think the Monaco Grand Prix: zigzagging, sometimes precipitous, with hairpin turns that slow you to a crawl followed by straightaways where you reach 200.

Anyone who has spent time on long-distance buses in the Andes will be familiar with the traditional huayno music piped over the PA system, soundtracking the hairpin turns on precipitous mountain roads.

The erosion of left and right means there is quite obviously far less to choose between Miliband and David Cameron than there was between Attlee and Churchill 60 years ago, or between Foot and Thatcher 30 years ago, which in turn explains the precipitous fall in voting turnout.

Set to music from Rameau's Les Boréades, it's a typically Alstonian creation, with its infolding and arching torsos, spiralling turns, and momentarily precipitous swings off-balance.

But April 2012 was an exceptionally bad month for Chinese exports and imports — indeed, dismal trade statistics for that month were the first sign that economic weakness during the preceding winter was turning into a precipitous decline.