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How to use precipice in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Precipice means a very steep cliff. Example: “He is standing on the edge of a precipice.”

Examples of precipice by meaning

nounThe brink of a dangerous situation.

  • to stand on a precipice
  • In emailed comments supporting the new initiative, the laureate professor Noam Chomsky said: “Humans are marching towards a precipice.2022 September 14, Arthur Neslen, quoting Noam Chomsky, “Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty”, in The...

More sentences with precipice

  • He is standing on the edge of a precipice.From the entry edge
  • He teetered on the brink of the precipice.From the entry teeter
  • Up and round and through caves and out over precipices at a million miles an hour.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 38. From the entry million
  • It has deep water and is surrounded on all sides by steep precipices.1945 May, Notes on the China Coast, volume XIV, number 5, →OCLC, page 22. From the entry Sansha
  • A self-described acrophobe who shied away from the precipices of the skyscrapers he was constructing, he loved piloting his own airplanes.2016 February 11, David W. Dunlap, “John Tishman, an Acrophobe Who Took the Manhattan Skyline to New Heights”, in The New York Times…. From the entry acrophobe
  • It was like seeing wisps of spirits trailing IVs, shrouded bodies on the precipice of a low-key volcano.2011, Ken Bruen, Headstone, Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 189. From the entry wisp
  • For all the dire warnings doomsdayers like to trumpet about imminent societal collapse, reality suggests that we’re pretty far from a precipice.2021 October 31, Ben Swenson, “A female-only dystopia, from the author of ‘Vox’”, in Daily Press, page 6. From the entry doomsdayer
  • They hang suspended over precipices, these rocky eeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.1910, Hans Adolf Erwein Max graf von Königsmarck, P. H. Oakley Williams, A German Staff Officer in India. From the entry eerie
  • Pensak made an inarticulate shout of surprise, and O stepped away from the sudden precipice so hard that she collided with the back of the elevator, and yelped.2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024. From the entry draw

Meaning of precipice

  1. noun A very steep cliff.
  2. noun The brink of a dangerous situation.
  3. noun A headlong fall or descent.

Full definition of precipice

Questions about precipice in a sentence

How do you use precipice in a sentence?
Precipice is used as a noun. For example: “He is standing on the edge of a precipice.”
What is a short sentence with precipice?
“to stand on a precipice”
What does precipice mean?
Precipice means a very steep cliff.

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