precipitously

How To Use precipitously In A Sentence

• It simply came into existence, appearing as precipitously as a flash of lightning.
• Technology stocks continued to drop precipitously throughout the summer.
• In fact, the underfur was no longer available in quantity, for beaver populations had precipitously declined, a hard fact noted by old trappers who remembered the glory days when the animals were so numerous a man could whack them dead with a stick. Bird Cloud
• Let's talk about why vegetable yields are declining precipitously.
• We essentially deal with what we call the installed base of the eight million RV'ers out there so as frankly our RV sales fell precipitously in the last 12 months from I think there were 300,000 plus down to 200,000 plus and now they will be slightly over 100,000 in 2009 so you have seen a pretty dramatic fall off in RV sales over the last 24 months without really impacting any of our RV business. US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
• In Illinois, levels of diversity drop precipitously, most likely reflecting one or more genetic bottlenecks in areas that were once covered by the Wisconsin glaciation.
• A few degrees left, and the hugger-mugger of the Old Town resolved itself into an open garret window here, with orange curtains, or there, a ladder leaning precipitously from a roof up onto a disorderly row of chimney pots.
• The land dropped precipitously down to the rocky shore.
• The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.
• He swept a hand over the luminous purple of heathery braes that sloped precipitously into the dark cleft of the Tail Burn's glen.