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.
• Real failure is letting your ego drive the bus of your life right off the cliff.
  — Kate Guadagnino, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2024
• The temple was carved into sandstone cliffs and may have served as a mausoleum.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
• Here and now, next to this cliff, the fate of the Fifth Empire shall be decided!
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Evgeny pulled out a thin cigarette from a narrow golden case and looked out the window: cliff, sea, monastery.
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• The stock market might be in the doldrums, but the biotechnology index has fallen off a cliff.
  — David Wainer, WSJ, 30 June 2022
• The influx of women during a crisis in the profession begs the question whether these recruits are facing a glass cliff.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2022
• The effect is genuinely frightening—like a locomotive going off a cliff at full speed.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• Looking like the edge of a cliff or a mountain range in space, the lower half of the spectacular image shows a massive cloud of orangey gas and dust—the edge of the nebula!
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 July 2022
• Likewise, in 2020, when the coronavirus drove the economy off a cliff in mere months, investors feared for their physical health, not just their financial health.
  — Jonathan Boyar, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• Its cumulative impact was powerful and punishing, as McPharlin captured in a video of a rogue waterfall pouring over a cliff.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 July 2022
• This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024