sheer drop

Example Sentences

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One of them, the experienced guide and technician, Robert “Doc” Wright, slips and finds himself suspended precariously above a sheer drop.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

I crawled up it and found a sheer drop facing the inaccessible summit.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

The grassy back lawn sat about 5 feet above a sheer drop to a stone patio with no fence to keep someone, like, say, our toddler, from teetering over the edge.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2018

Now, there is sheer drop of about 10m from the top of the bank to the riverbed.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2017

From that point there was a sheer drop, for the cliff was slightly undercut, and even Gollum could not find a hold of any kind.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien