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
“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
On the other side was a sheer drop.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
