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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Use 'cliff' in a 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.