[ US /ˈpɹɛsəpəs/ ]
[ UK /pɹˈɛsɪpˌɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a very steep cliff
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How To Use precipice In A Sentence

  • There are high precipices that are backed by the papyrus and ambatch swamps that form the delta of the Kagera River.
  • There is now a real movement in our society to pull our youngsters back from the edge of the precipice of self-annihilation and redirect our children toward a wholesome lifestyle which will allow them a chance to fulfill their potential.
  • Those leaderships conduct us to the border of the precipice. The only way to avoid it is to wipe out the national borders, the imperialist ruling and the capitalist private property.
  • Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted.
  • My name echoed between us like a prayer, and I answered with a mewling cry, tumbling over the precipice again. Brush of Darkness
  • If the two don't speak to each other, the world edges closer to the precipice of total war.
  • From behind they rise in rough, uneven, and heathy declivities, out of the wide muir before mentioned, between Loch Eitive and Loch Awe; but in front they terminate abruptly in the most frightful precipices, which form the whole side of the pass, and descend at one fall into the water which fills its trough. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • She would almost stop, as though climbing a mountain, then rapidly rolling to right and left as she gained the summit of a huge sea, she steadied herself and paused for a moment as though affrighted at the yawning precipice before her. Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
  • To Holly, it looked as if the precipice was a straight fall, without so much as an angle to cushion the horse beneath them. SEASONS OF GOLD
  • In reality, the conferees knew the only country that had an industrial base capable of pulling the world back from the precipice was the United States. Vince Farrell: Bretton Woods II
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