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Precipitous
"Precipitous" in a Sentence (13 examples)
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In a moment the young fellows had dismounted, fastened their horses, and were ascending the precipitous slope which led up to the object which had excited their curiosity.
On the top of the precipitous shore, looking out to sea, was a large castle.
Sprightly little goatherds, whose heads are the heads of fauns, and whose half naked and ruddy bodies are often clad in skins, ramble over the precipitous hills with nimble herds able to crop a living from mere stone-piles; and the fauns, Pan-like, pipe to their goats strains Theocritus might have loved.
a precipitous cliff
a precipitous mountain
a precipitous decline
a precipitous drop
About this time our journey began to be pleasant again. The weather warm, yet not disagreeably so, the grass abundant and of an excellent quality, the road not greatly precipitous, the scenery enchanting.
When the wind is in the right direction, hang-gliders launch themselves giddily into space from the precipitous bank.
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[…]humans have been responsible for a precipitous decline of elephants, from perhaps 300,000 in the early 1970s to some 10,000 today.
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