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

It was not a broad road, and it had no wall or parapet along the edge, and as it ran on the sheer drop from its brink became deeper and deeper.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien