How to Use cliff in a Sentence

cliff

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  • Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
  • Here, Moore takes a shift hauling Blumer’s 56-pounder up a cliff.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • Some cliffs drop hundreds of feet down to the Parvati River.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 27 May 2024
  • The five-person team then worked for some time to locate Scott up a steep embankment below a cliff line.
    — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 22 July 2024
  • The sides of the ridge sloped away sharply but then disappeared completely, meaning that they were edged in vertical cliffs.
    — Jim Carmichel, Outdoor Life, 25 July 2024
  • The birds cling to vertical surfaces such as cave walls, cliff faces and, most often, chimneys rather than perching like most other birds.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
  • Recently, a large chunk of rocky matrix loosened from its layer near the top of the cliff, then tumbled down toward the water.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
  • The bottom line: The Series A cliff that was hanging over the sector seems a little less steep.
    — Aaron Weitzman, Axios, 23 July 2024
  • While weakened, Haymitch returned to the cliff and collapsed right before the District 1 female threw her axe at him.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
  • What appears to be shipping containers for a plumbing business can be seen in the distance in a facility at the bottom of the cliff.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 31 May 2024
  • This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Scientists have not said if the ship is believed to be at the top of the cliff or at the bottom.
    — Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Dipak would pull me to safety when a yak tried to nudge me off a cliff.
    — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
  • Then Tom flies over us hanging off the end of a helicopter, gets to the edge of the cliff, and just jumps off.
    — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
  • The driver of the Jeep that fell off the cliff was swept out to sea about 100 yards and then directed back to shore.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
    — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • And part way through the season, there’s a scene where young Misty pushes her friend off of a cliff.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • One ram led three of its fellows up a 30-foot cliff, into the shade of a small side canyon.
    — Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
  • This is the right moment to jump off the cliff and hope to land on a pile of soft foam blocks instead of a row of jagged rocks.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The man was uninjured but trapped from the waist down in a crevasse along the cliff, San Diego Fire-Rescue said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Leo was injured on the shore, stuck between the high cliffs and the Pacific Ocean.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Pay with your flock of sheep that will go soaring over a cliff to their deaths, for this is the price of wanting.
    — Marti Trgovich, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • Fiona was first spotted trapped at the foot of a Cromarty Firth cliff in 2021.
    — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Investors expect consumer spending to slow the rest of the year, but not fall off a cliff.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
  • This nerve-jolting series remains perched on the edge of a high cliff.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2024
  • Crowds of people lined the cliffs to watch the surfing spectacle.
    — Sergio Olmos, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Thieves are known to rappel down cliffs to harvest them.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The cliffs at the site contain fossils of similar age as the pterosaur ones, the oldest yet found in the country.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2023
  • The name comes from a series of sheer red sandstone cliffs that extend for more than 25 miles.
    — Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • It is known for its cave tours, alpine coaster and swing ride that sits on the edge of a cliff and sends riders over a canyon.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2023

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