Sentence examples for with a precipitous from inspiring English sources

In a few cases, Mr. Egan cut off an actor with a precipitous "Thank you".

Like Krubera, Chevé starts with a precipitous drop: three thousand feet in less than half a mile.

The cost of settlements, coupled with a precipitous drop in donations, has left the diocese in financial straits.

I walked by a handsome Renaissance structure with a precipitous view over a low stone wall, and asked a local policeman the building's name.

Unfortunately, I lived on a lot with a precipitous slope, lots of shady trees, an abundance of compacted soil and not much else.

Its Republican governor, Tim Pawlenty, is brandishing the scythe, arguing that the state spends too generously and taxes too heavily.Minnesota, like many states, has seen a steep decline in tax revenues coupled with a precipitous rise in health-care costs.

We found progressive declines in the proportion of naïve CD4 T cells with age, a precipitous drop in γδ T cells after the second year of life and an increase in acute phase protein levels amongst geriatric sheep.

As of now, "officer safety" is regarded as indisputably paramount whenever we talk about the way cops interact with civilians; despite a precipitous nation​wide decline in violent crime, officers and their union representatives routinely parrot the discredited notion that police must live in constant fear for their lives.

He was referring to the impact of Standard & Poor's downgrade in ratings of Greece and Portugal on Tuesday, when Wall Street reacted with what he called a "precipitous" sell-off.

"Reflektor" knocked Katy Perry's "Prism" (Capitol) to No. 2, with sales of 92,000, a precipitous drop from the 286,000 that brought the disc to the top spot last week.

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