sheer drop
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"I know when I was lying there, all I could think of is, 'I'm not ready to leave my daughter'," Dyer said, recalling how she woke up after falling 30ft down the sheer drop.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2026
“It was a sheer drop, almost 90 degree drop. We were all young. We rappelled down to the ice on the glacier,” Nafziger said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
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
Emerging from the tunneled cleft in the cliff wall, Claire was once again faced with the sheer drop of it, the certain death if she were to fall.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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