Sample sentences for PRECIPICE

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Definition

a very steep cliff

or:

any dangerous situation

precipice = steep cliff (or other dangerous situation)

precipice = edge of a very dangerous situation

She skied off a precipice, dropped her skis in midair, and then opened a parachute.

precipice = steep cliff

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country—its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.
Tzu Sun -- The Art of War

precipices = steep cliffs

Then suddenly, as though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, it dropped like a stone...
Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

precipice = cliff

As the ground flattened, a huge stone precipice rose up ahead of him,
Louis Sachar -- Holes

precipice = a very steep cliff face

At last they were going in single file along the edge of a precipice and Shasta shuddered to think that he had done the same last night without knowing it.
C.S. Lewis -- The Horse and His Boy

precipice = very steep cliff

Given the treacherous nature of the local topography (most of the cliffs that riddle the region are composed of Navajo sandstone, a crumbly stratum that erodes into smooth, bulging precipices) and Ruess's penchant for dangerous climbing, this is a credible scenario.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

precipices = steep cliffs

They had come, without seeing it, almost to the edge of a small precipice from which they looked down into a gorge...
C.S. Lewis -- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

precipice = steep cliff

We all wait to hear the woman jump over a precipice...
Jean Rhys -- Wide Sargasso Sea

precipice = a very steep cliff

We stood rooted in place at the edge of the precipice, the four of us pressed against Jalil's arms, staring down at the snake.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

precipice = a very steep drop

beyond these, a country of high mountains, dark precipices, stony valleys,
C.S. Lewis -- The Silver Chair

precipices = very steep cliffs

...steep and narrow, with precipices on either side.
C.S. Lewis -- The Voyage of the Dawn Trader

precipices = steep cliffs

He took a deep breath, then walked the last fifty yards to the giant precipice and touched it.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

precipice = a very steep cliff face

precipice = steep cliff

"Everyone and everything," he'd written, "is teetering on the precipice."
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
PRAISE-SINGER Elesin, we placed the reins of the world in your hands yet you watched it plunge over the edge of the bitter precipice.
Wole Soyinka -- Death and the King's Horseman
Now I can go on thinking whatever I like, and I shan't fall over a precipice or be drowned, for there he is, keeping his eye on me, she thought.
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse
The candles revealed the fact that it was not really a precipice, but only a steep clay hill twenty or thirty feet high.
Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
They camped early, close to a patch of pink-tinted pipe-clay, agreeing to explore the precipice the following morning.
James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout

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