How to Use cliff in a Sentence

cliff

noun

• Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
• This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Fiona was first spotted trapped at the foot of a Cromarty Firth cliff in 2021.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• The 17-year-old slipped while hiking with a group of friends and fell around 30 feet off of a sheer cliff face, police said.
  — Mallika Kallingal, CNN, 11 Feb. 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
• Some cliffs drop hundreds of feet down to the Parvati River.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 27 May 2024
• Thieves are known to rappel down cliffs to harvest them.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
• That is feeding hopes that the economy may not fall off a cliff.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 Jan. 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
• As was seen, the stock price of McDonald’s fell off a cliff on the date of the outbreak announcement.
  — Mark Kortepeter, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• The most well-known are the cliff divers who perform stunts off the 30-foot waterfall, a focal point of the restaurant experience.
  — Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024