Sentence examples for precipitously to from inspiring English sources

Failing to meet the criteria in a given month means the interest rate falls precipitously, to less than 1 percent.

But the foundation's assets have declined precipitously — to $12.1 million in 2008, from $34.3 million in 2001.

The department abused its investigative powers in moving secretly and precipitously to hunt down Mr. Solomon's phone records.

He held his hand out in the air, plotting an imaginary line that dropped precipitously to his knees.

Over the next three months, it fell, rose again and then started dropping precipitously, to close at $58 yesterday.

Starting with the habiline period the capacity grew precipitously: to 680 cubic centimeters in Homo habilis, 900 in Homo erectus, and about 1,400 in Homo sapiens.

We urge the Legislature not to act precipitously and to await the details of Mr. Corzine's plan to rescue the state from its fiscal woes.

The Obama administration was right to resist the push to precipitously readmit Cuba to the O.A.S.

The result: I had to drive (fast) over the side of the lawn and precipitously close to the truck in order to get around him.

Democrats, whose numbers have dwindled so precipitously as to be effectively impotent, objected to raising the sales tax which would hurt poor and middle class families disproportionately.

The British military has dwindled precipitously due to lack of funding and some estimate army personnel to eventually fall to 50,000 (the same size as the NYPD).