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

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

But if it did, it would be a three-minute ride that involves a climb nearly a third of a mile long, up to 1,600 feet, followed by a sheer drop and seven loops.

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven