cliff

[klɪf]

Definition:
1. A high area of rock with a very steep side, often at the edge of the sea or ocean.
2. A steep high face of rock.

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'cliff' example sentence:

1. When you go there, it's beautiful. You get on kind of a winding cable car that goes up the side of the cliff.
2. Scarborough Council commissioned geological experts earlier this year to survey the cliffs.
3. The dog had tumbled down the cliff.
4. They came straggling up the cliff road.
5. From his position on the cliff top, he had a good view of the harbour.
6. While he sounded the alarm, a student from Leeds climbed down the cliff to collect the dog Judy.
7. I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to.
8. A chunk of the cliff had cracked off in a storm.
9. It is thought that the train hit a boulder that had fallen down a cliff on to the track.
10. Six volunteers slid down the cliff with the help of a rope but gave up all hope of finding her alive after a 90-minute search.
11. Suspended from a cliff by sling wires, 4 Thai couples are saying, "I do" in a "flying wedding" ceremony to celebrate Valentine's Day.
12. Behind the habitations, the sandstone cliffs rose abruptly to the north and west.
13. The car had toppled over the cliff.
14. The ground shook and the cliffs seemed to vibrate.
15. Here another rugged castle crowns the cliffs and crags.
16. The dog survived by drinking water from the base of the cliff.
17. The view of lake and plunging cliffs seduces visitors.
18. The man and his son Mark had abseiled down the sheer cliffs.
19. It just hung over the cliff.
20. For people in cliff dwellings, hauling water, wood, and food to their homes was a major chore.
21. He was struggling to hold onto a rock on the face of the cliff.
22. They lay in the cliff top grass with the sea stretching out far below.
23. Then she ran along the edge of cliff and fell 100 feet, bouncing off a rock into the sea.
24. The cliff face has been steadily eroded by the sea.
25. A pall of oily black smoke drifted over the cliff-top.
26. Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest on a cliff.
27. We hiked the Grand Canyon, exploring Indian cliff dwellings.
28. The statue fell into the sea when the cliff collapsed as a result of the storm.
29. The dog had initially been knocked unconscious but had survived by drinking water from a fresh stream at the base of the cliff.
30. He scrambled 200 feet up the cliff face.
31. The cliff was almost vertical.
32. You just have to convince him that you are prepared to take a higher risk than he is of accidentally falling off the cliff.
33. They lowered him down the cliff on a rope.
34. Who would have expected that he could climb up that steep cliff?
35. The town is perched on the edge of a steep, precipitous cliff.
36. The narrow path zigzags up the cliff.
37. Thousands of seabirds are nesting on the cliffs.
38. The bay was shadowed by magnificent cliffs.
39. The earthquake plunged entire towns over the edge of the cliffs.
40. The car rolled over the edge of a cliff.
41. Keep away from the edge of the cliff.
42. They clambered over the rocks at the foot of the cliff.
43. There was a dicey moment as one of our party made a risky climb up the cliff wall.
44. The cliffs rise sheer from the beach.
45. Alexis walked up the coast, and resumed his reading in the shade of an overhanging cliff.
46. They shuffled slowly down the turf towards the cliff's edge.
47. They climbed upward along the steep cliffs surrounding the village.
48. The cliff is gradually crumbling away.
49. The castle is magnificently sited high up on a cliff.
50. They made their way in single file along the cliff path.
51. A waterfall cascades down the cliff from the hills behind.