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
The glacier straddles the ridge between two mountains, creating a gushing waterfall with a sheer drop into the lagoon below.
From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2022
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
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
