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.
  • On big days at Pe‘ahi, Kody’s mother took the boys out to the cliff.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Further on, a rope blocked one of the stairways up to the cliff.
    — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
  • The two used the ropes to climb up and down the cliff, ferrying water and grain to the horse.
    — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The pair throw themselves off a cliff at the end of the tragic story.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Scott Johnson's body was found at the base of a cliff in Sydney in 1988.
    — NBC News, 3 May 2022
  • Here, Moore takes a shift hauling Blumer’s 56-pounder up a cliff.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
  • The passersby by looked over the cliff and noticed what appeared to be a body.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 4 Jan. 2023
  • But last year, the line fell off a cliff despite one of the cleanest bills of health for any group in the league.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Here and now, next to this cliff, the fate of the Fifth Empire shall be decided!
    — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • 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
  • Thelma and Louise, but there's no driving off the cliff.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The class falls off a cliff at the point guard position after that.
    — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • On the 18k red gold version of this model, the cliffs are red gold colored.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024
  • As the section of the cliff broke off, her husband sped away for safety.
    — Rachel Ramirez and Sharif Paget, CNN, 1 June 2022
  • 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
  • The sheer granite cliffs of El Capitan and Half Dome lure rock climbers from around the world.
    — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Real failure is letting your ego drive the bus of your life right off the cliff.
    — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Or rappel down 20-million-year-old cliffs in Kangaroo Point.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • In addition, a North Carolina hunter in 2019 faced a harrowing encounter when a bear shot in a tree fell, bit him and caused both to tumble off a cliff.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024

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