Sentence examples for were precipitous from inspiring English sources

Speaker Jon Husted of the Ohio House, the Republican who wrote the law, said Mr. Dann's lawsuits, based on an untested legal strategy, were precipitous and had usurped the legislature's powers.

Their fall has been precipitous.

The fall can be precipitous.

Mr. Estrada's fall has been precipitous.

Air Afrique's descent was precipitous.

The drop-off in scale from there is precipitous.

The dropoff in talent and marquee value is precipitous.

Since writing them, Mr. Reagan's decline has been precipitous.

But this time the fall has been precipitous.

"Donors have been precipitous in suspending aid," said Putzel.

From diagnosis to decline had been precipitous, I knew.