How to Use cliff in a Sentence

cliff

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  • Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
  • Thelma and Louise, but there's no driving off the cliff.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • If your boss is a jerk, why is everyone walking off the cliff for him/her?
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2022
  • The two used the ropes to climb up and down the cliff, ferrying water and grain to the horse.
    — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The friend eventually also called for help after being unable to find a way down the cliff.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This smells like: The tail-end of a picnic on the cliffs, when the sun starts to set, cooling breezes waft by, and the cashmere sweaters come out.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2024
  • There’s evidence that once strength drops below a critical level, usable power drops off a cliff.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2024
  • But the revenues have just gone off the cliff in terms of, for example, M&A or underwriting.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • As companies scale beyond early-stage tax relief schemes, founders face a stark cliff edge as government support abruptly drops.
    — James McClure, Fortune Europe, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Montrezl Harrell is a good rebounder but not that great of a rim protector and his production has fallen off a cliff.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve might be in the process of driving the stock market over a cliff by tightening into a recession.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Here, Moore takes a shift hauling Blumer’s 56-pounder up a cliff.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • The passersby by looked over the cliff and noticed what appeared to be a body.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But last year, the line fell off a cliff despite one of the cleanest bills of health for any group in the league.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Scientists have not said if the ship is believed to be at the top of the cliff or at the bottom.
    — Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Dipak would pull me to safety when a yak tried to nudge me off a cliff.
    — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Then Tom flies over us hanging off the end of a helicopter, gets to the edge of the cliff, and just jumps off.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • The driver of the Jeep that fell off the cliff was swept out to sea about 100 yards and then directed back to shore.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • And part way through the season, there’s a scene where young Misty pushes her friend off of a cliff.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • One ram led three of its fellows up a 30-foot cliff, into the shade of a small side canyon.
    — Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The class falls off a cliff at the point guard position after that.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On the 18k red gold version of this model, the cliffs are red gold colored.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024
  • This is the right moment to jump off the cliff and hope to land on a pile of soft foam blocks instead of a row of jagged rocks.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The man was uninjured but trapped from the waist down in a crevasse along the cliff, San Diego Fire-Rescue said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Leo was injured on the shore, stuck between the high cliffs and the Pacific Ocean.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Pay with your flock of sheep that will go soaring over a cliff to their deaths, for this is the price of wanting.
    — Marti Trgovich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • The sheer granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome lure rock climbers from around the world.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Fiona was first spotted trapped at the foot of a Cromarty Firth cliff in 2021.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023

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