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Sentence Examples The west side of the building is nearly monolithic, appearing impregnable, with ribbon windows and a sheer precipice of craggy stone. No beetling precipice, of which she ever heard, had fallen and crushed so much as the sheep feeding in the valleys. At the precipice of the roof, a stairwell circled its way to the bottom floor, where it jointed itself to a room that was probably once a bar. For a very brief moment the edifice of post-cold war global capitalism looked as if it was gazing over a very steep precipice. If the two don't speak to each other, the world edges closer to the precipice of total war. We, descendants of human suffering, are living in a fine mansion at the edge of a precipice. But, after teetering at the edge of the precipice, he woke up one morning feeling miraculously restored. A series of tragedies forced them to fight the three by-elections that brought them to the political precipice. Get lost in the mist on a peak such as Tryfan and you can easily stray over the edge of a precipice. We stand upon the edge of a precipice, the fall from which we will not return. We seem to teeter on the edge of the precipice, but get pulled back by the seat of our pants. She once told me that, as a creative, you want to walk up to the edge of the precipice and look over, but make sure you don't fall off. At last the climb moved above the forest line, and the path became a vertical craggy precipice. Only barely invigorated by government policy, the economy totters towards the precipice. I hit a sheer precipice, so staggeringly dangerous that even I don't attempt it. We made our way along a vertiginous precipice, the vast drainage of Muddy Creek spread below us like some scarlet kingdom. He was the only one who jumped over the precipice hoping that they'd be a tree to break his fall. Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted. If the weather is fair, she sits outside, often with her legs dangling over the precipice, the spyglass propped between her knees. Unfortunately, it doesn't take long for things to begin the slippery slide into mediocrity before plunging off a precipice into idiocy. Show More Sentences She followed the sound of her voice until she suddenly found herself on the edge of a steep precipice. Eddie fell backwards, stumbling over the edge of the trail, but caught on with one hand, perilously hanging over the precipice. Occasionally the path hugged a precipice where updraughts hinted at deep chasms. That duty is even more urgent when the council is edging towards a financial precipice. Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end. It is too late to pull the rein when the horse is on the edge of the precipice. They stood at the edge of a precipice, made from of broken concrete. We were all financially scrambling on the edge of a precipice. And let's not even get into the allegations of wife-beating, the disappearing acts and the gambling sprees that have left him, more than once, on the precipice of bankruptcy. If the winds are strong, beware of eddy currents coming off nearby trees, and for strips with a precipice at the approach end, be ready for a strong downdraft on short final. Paradoxically, it was easier to be bold when the world was on the brink of a precipice and we really had no choice. Copenhagen is the precipice, either we step back and let live or tip over into the abyss. What you miss is tautness, and the tingling sense of teetering on the precipice, which might have been achieved with some cuts and tighter editing. Europe stands on the precipice of the most awful war the world has ever known. It refuses to take legal action against the corporate criminals who have pushed Britain to the precipice of a full-blown economic depression. Of course, this isn't the first time Louis has stumbled close to the precipice. We stand at the precipice of getting rid of individual assessments and denying people on humanitarian and compassionate grounds. This is the most extreme indicator pointing to the growing reality that many households are indeed very near the precipice. The difficulty for 4x4 comes from very sharp bends on a stony track along a precipice. At the front, the view is over the precipice onto the sea, and at the back, onto a narrow, shady inner courtyard, the patio. Show More Sentences The Coyote is standing on thin air, but momentarily he remains suspended above the precipice. In ANDOCK, a village that is part of ANGOUANFEME, when you descend, you practically get down to valley, at the edge of the precipice. A trigger device is used to send a mixture of coarse gravel, soil and water with a volume of around 60 cubic metres down the precipice. When you stand on the edge of a precipice, it takes determination and lucidity not to step into the void. Four wheel drive along a twisting road to the precipice of Shothole and Charles Knife canyons, where the views are breathtaking. As Latin America exhales and steps back from the economic precipice, the region may once again be faced with the latter option. By that agreement, our country managed to pull itself back from the precipice. On the right side of the fall line, but precariously close to the precipice. The products that caused the most complaints were precipice bonds, spread betting, share tipping and those offering the facility to unlock a pension. There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage. They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping. Typically, the Manics are releasing their most personal and least polemical album as the world teeters on its most politically charged precipice for decades. They drape every precipice, steel poles jutting out 20 feet above the sidewalk, loosely tangled like volleyball nets in winter. But once you look at Wednesdays and Thursdays, things fall off the precipice altogether. I am not truly on the edge of a precipice, she reassured herself. Since that day, the inhabitants of Île d'Orléans, across from the falls, say that on moonlit autumn evenings they sometimes see a young woman dressed in white at the foot of the precipice. She has played a hooker, a barkeep and a karaoke con artist and seems to be edging her way to the precipice of some greatness. I tiptoe to the edge and, lying down flat, my hands clutching the cliff's rough stone, I peer over the precipice to see something that would steal the sleep from the most heat-tired of eyes. We always seem to be on the precipice of falling back into recession. For Price the election serves as a precipice between the apex of colonial rule and the beginnings of Martiniquan modernity. Show More Sentences The mission and the cause remains even more valid today and perhaps even more vital as Afghanistan once again titters on the blink of the precipice of chaos with the Taliban once again regaining ascendancy. As financial institutions around the world, in particular in the U. S., teeter on the precipice of survival, Canada's financial system, while under stress, is essentially sound. At the outset, I should say that we are all facing this precipice together in the same ship and that multilateralism is the only safe way to forge ahead towards a safer world. From precipice to precipice man has descended spiritually to the point of denying Me and forgetting Me, even to the extreme of denying himself and disowning his essence, which is his spirit. It is precisely on that dividing line between enlightenment and doubt, on the edge of a precipice with our future wrapped in mist that we are always standing. The sensational 150km dirt track from the remote northern town of Chachapoyas to Celelendín climbed up to a height of more than 4,000m before descending along a crumbling ledge clinging to a sheer precipice. A ridgeline is a long area from which the surface drops away steeply on one or two sides, such as a bluff or precipice. Many argue that we have long since stepped unheedingly beyond this precipice, and thus must pay the price for decades of ecologically and socially destructive behaviour. To be sure, Europe could still draw away from the precipice. As for higher ed professionals poised on the precipice of a system with band-aids about to fall away, this would probably be a good time to reassess core mission. Examples from Classical Literature The vast quantities of ice pouring over the precipice would freeze together, agglomerate, and form an ice-bridge. His foot was propped by a bracket of quartz rock, balanced on the verge of the precipice. And the next moment they were sliding and tossing, apparently with the whole snow-field, down towards the gullied precipice. Now, I remember that O Sato told me that there was a deep precipice on the right at the top of the hill. He thought them too slow, too timid, too small-minded to rescue France from the precipice. The dim loom of land saluted my eyes, and nearer still a precipice of rocks, by which the seafowl were screaming. Such a rallentando effect is like the apparent pause in the rush of a river before it thunders over a precipice. Morgan had just struck the bottom of the precipice in his wild, self-effacing dream. Genevieve shrank back from the verge of the precipice and drew the others after her. Do you not look on the past with a shudder at the precipice on which you stood? She felt as though this cry called her from her slumbers and revealed the precipice to which she had strayed in her sleepwalking. Only a slender column of dust was still eddying at the edge of the precipice. At one time this ice sheet extended a mile further down and plunged over the abrupt precipice that walls the Avalanche basin. The season seemed to stand on the edge of a precipice, will-less, like a sleep-walker. Just below, at Eagle Falls, it drops over its precipice in a lawny cascade. One false step and you are over a precipice, or up to your neck in a slough. Niagara makes a single leap over a precipice one hundred and eighty feet high, while iguazu is broken in fall but far wider. The pali, the precipice, stands for any difficulty or obstacle of magnitude. But even as he falls it is plain that he will drag his opponent after him adown the precipice. He was edging his way gingerly around the corner of a precipice where the upper edge of a sharp declivity of ice-glazed snow joined it. Show More Sentences By and by they came to an ice-coated ridge which was tilted up at a sharp angle, and had a precipice on one side of it. The rebels were on the brink of a precipice, and extricated themselves. The steepness of the precipice was guard enough near the town. Up the valley, under a dizzy precipice, nestled the village of Kandersteg, our halting-place for the night. And so they came to the swart arboreal precipice of the unpassable forest. The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. Each of the combatants threw all his energies into that effort, and the result was, that both tottered on the brink of the precipice. So I touched a button and set fifty electric suns aflame on the top of our precipice. A may bush, overhanging a little precipice of chalk, caught her eye. The elderly and lethargic banker sprang erect in the coach and leapt over the precipice before the tilted vehicle could take him there. It seemed as if an enormous giant, or a Titan, had sculptured his own likeness on the precipice. We had made a wrong turning and the syce all but slipped over a precipice. When a man falls from a precipice or slips on a piece of orange peel, his body behaves as if it were devoid of life. At their feet fell the precipice where the limestone was quarried away. We were in a bleak, unsheltered place, now, and had to trudge right along, in order to keep warm, though we rather expected to go over a precipice, sooner or later. The others, screaming and clawing, were thrust over the precipice, and went hurtling down, as their prisoners had of old, on to the sharp bamboos six hundred feet below. Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice. It was really the hotel we were after, monstrously magnified by the fog, but we took it for the face of a precipice, and decided not to try to claw up it. Then Patroclus drew near to Achilles with tears welling from his eyes, as from some spring whose crystal stream falls over the ledges of a high precipice. This one of mine will gallop up the mountain roads without turning a hair, and will never miss his footing in a canter along the brink of a precipice. Show More Sentences From that direction the place is really inaccessible, and, were it not for a hardish ledge which runs at the very base of the precipice, we should have had to turn back. This declivity swept down a couple of hundred feet, into a gully which curved around and ended at a precipice eight hundred feet high, overlooking a glacier. Find more words! 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