Sentence examples for precipitous with from inspiring English sources

The river's upper stream is precipitous, with many rapids.

The way was precipitous, with huge boulders to trip over.

For the most part, the eastern shore of the middle Caspian is precipitous, with the sea destroying the margin of the limestone plateaus of Tüpqaraghan and Kendyrli-Kayasansk.

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

But the Giants' own coaching situation also feels precipitous, with Tom Coughlin widely expected to lose his job after a third consecutive losing season.

In a concluding chapter of their book, Dr. Steckel and Dr. Rose said the study showed that "the health decline was precipitous with the changes in ecological environments where people lived".

To accuse the attorney general of being precipitous is, with all due respect, preposterous".

By around 1650, however, the witch frenzy began its precipitous decline, with prosecutions for witchcraft virtually vanishing by 1700.

Coal is at a crossroad, either resolving its environmental challenges and regaining its competitive edge, or suffering a possibly precipitous decline with ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.

The centerpiece is a tree precariously growing at the edge of a precipitous bluff, with its twisted roots laid bare by erosion.

The narrow black-topped road climbs and swoops, sometimes close to the water and sometimes high above on precipitous cliffs, with a surprising variety of views.