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precipitous sentence examples

  • Precipitous sea cliffs of cape wrath.
  • Valleys of great depth, and some with very precipitous sides, lie round snowdon, separating the various ridges.
  • This explanation was viewed rather skeptically, and we wondered if the cliff had become rather more precipitous due to subsequent quarrying.
  • Precipitous slopes of reid's ridge are visible on the right.
  • Whilst being careful to respond in a timely manner, a landlord should therefore not be too precipitous.
  • Precipitous decline.
  • They provide draft power to cultivate the narrow and often precipitous rice terraces.
  • Precipitous descent of some twenty feet or more.
  • The coast, tho not precipitous, is marked by a strong rocky outline, broken by numerous caves and several headlands and bays.
  • Precipitous drops.
  • Precipitous rocks.

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