sheer drop
Example Sentences
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Outside Sacele, the icy track narrows to the width of a car as it climbs towards the villa, a sheer drop on one side.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2023
While it’s mostly a sheer drop from the U.N. grounds to the water, there’s a Coast Guard cutter capable of breaking ice that’s moored at a makeshift dock.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2022
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
‘No, not that way! There’s a sheer drop over the wall. Follow me!’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
