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Sentence Examples When a cow committed bovicide over a cliff in one of Liam O'Flaherty's stories I was more interested in the rump steak. After one user spotted footsteps in the snow near the edge of a cliff, Tomnod alerted law enforcement. But the Ryan budget could become an albatross in the negotiations over the fiscal cliff. Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below. It told the story of the island's coast and illustrated the cliff falls and erosion that Blackgang suffered over the years. In the case of a cliffed marsh edge, wave heights increase at the edge but are dissipated rapidly in the first 10-20m landward of the cliff. It is formed as a mountain stream drops over a cliff and changes character to a lowland river, the Afon Rhaeadr. On December 12, the feast day of this Virgin, freestyle cliff divers jump into the sea to honor her. Another fort was also built on the cliff overlooking the settlement, for added protection. Similarly, a mountain in the Perm Region made up of three cliff stacks is called the Yermak Stone after Yermak. Legend has it that Yermak and his brigade passed one of the harsh Siberian winters on the cliff side. The face of the cliff had many projections that were big enough for birds to nest on. Pike of Stickle stands at the western end, followed by Loft Crag, Harrison Stickle and the great cliff of Pavey Ark above Stickle Tarn. In geography and geology, a cliff is a vertical, or nearly vertical, rock exposure. Sometimes a cliff peters out at the end of a ridge, with tea tables or other types of rock columns remaining. One candidate for highest cliff in the world is Nanga Parbat's Rupal Face, which rises approximately 4,600 m, or 15,000 ft, above its base. Well, of course there's more, a lot more. But that's the cliff notes of what faces us once we find Sanderson. As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call. Ryker stepped forward and blurted out the cliff notes of the current crisis. The experiments show that there is complex system of caves and tunnels within the limestone cliff. Show More Sentences The plateau is bounded by Raven Scar, the longest unbroken cliff in the district, and on top of it is the pothole of Meregill Hole. The Pennine valley ends at Richmond, where an important medieval castle still watches the important ford from the top of a cliff. At the sea remains of a submarine forest were found in a bed of peat found around halfway between cliff and lower water. Guernsey, with its sandy beaches, cliff walks, seascapes and offshore islands has been a tourist destination since at least the Victorian days. Other sites are sometimes chosen, and these include low trees and bushes, bramble patches, reed beds, heather clumps and cliff ledges. Two large hieroglyphed steles incised upon the face of a projecting mass of boldly rounded cliff. This is where I think the argument against me falls off the cliff. Standing on the edge of the cliff made me realise just how much aerophobia affected me. It was reported that a police patrol car travelled to the top of the cliff where Spanish cops prepared to absail down to save him. Inversely, they are used on land as sea cliff warnings in rugged and hilly terrain in the foggy Faroe Islands. On the way down the children misbehave, almost causing Laura to fall over a cliff. The rear toe is strong and faces inwards allowing the birds to firmly grip onto vertical cliff faces. The fontinal cliff vegetation occupies moist rocky banks, damp ledges, and dripping rocks. Another highlight for travellers was the cliff ascent and walks at Piercefield. There is also a memorial on the cliff above the rocks where the ship struck, which is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. The coastline remains as steep cliffs until after Dunraven Head, where the cliff face drops away to expose Southerndown Beach. As a result, marsh surfaces in this regime may have an extensive cliff at their seaward edge. The cliff opened up and left a fissure just big enough for him to hide in until the pirates left. In gratitude, he decided to stay on along the cliff, probably to help warn the locals of the impending pirate attack if they were to return. Instead, a handful of arrogant greedmeisters blew up their institutions and took our economy off the cliff along the way. Show More Sentences It is one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland and is a major tourist attraction, noted for its dramatic cliff scenery. Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff. From the cliff overhangs above, it is easy to view the parent feeding of these chicks by regurgitation. Occasionally a peregrine falcon disturbs nesting kittiwakes as it swoops by the cliff edges. Petroglyphs off a cliff face in Bangudae, South Korea show 300 depictions of various animals, a third of which are whales. While under fire from above, the men scaled the cliff, only to discover that the guns had already been withdrawn. In the west of Stockport it flows at the base of a cliff below the road called Brinksway before reaching flat country. There are promenades along both cliff tops with parks at either end and sandy beaches on the coast. It is a tributary of the Shenandoah, and winds gracefully under cliff and willow in its leisuresome and quiet way toward the sea. Courtnall has it made in the shade now, big money, owns restaurants and a spiffy log cabin on a cliff over the crashing ocean. In turn, the house sparrow has once been recorded as a brood parasite of the American cliff swallow. Giant's Castle is an Iron Age cliff castle on the coastal path between the airfield and Porth Hellick Bay. Subsequently, regular dives revealed a submerged cliff east of Yarmouth with large quantities of peat that dated to a similar period. The river, which runs below the castle on the east side, has eroded the rock the castle stands on, forming a cliff. Rock painting was also performed on cliff faces, but fewer of those have survived because of erosion. This was solved by building the New Battery higher up the cliff, at a height of 120 metres above sea level. Jumping off a cliff is indeed dangerous, but it's meant for bravehearts only. This route approaches the Battery along the cliff edge, using a road reserved for bus traffic. This is because the single track road's position close to the cliff edge is considered dangerous for multiple car use. Immediately behind Mermaid Rock lies a small Sea cave that cuts several metres into the new cliff. Show More Sentences Stone was removed from the cliff quarries either by sea, or using horse carts to transport large blocks to Swanage. The Hooken Undercliff is on the cliff route between Beer, Devon and Branscombe. Wave pounding is when the sheer energy of the wave hitting the cliff or rock breaks pieces off. The cliff face goes up to 350 feet and the cliffs stretch for 8 miles of coastline. The Isle of Wight Coastal Path runs along the cliff edge for the entire extent of the bay. Bamburgh Castle, Dunstanburgh Castle, Lindisfarne Castle and stretches of Hadrian's Wall all strategically take advantage of high, rocky cliff lines formed by the sill. There are chance anfractuosities of ruin in the upper portions of the Coliseum which offer a very fair imitation of the rugged face of an alpine cliff. Why do cars in movies always blow up when they fall off a cliff? Many feared that the Democrats would follow the president off a cliff. Filled with these foretales of gloom, I climbed back up the cliff with Yates to the Nissen hut to join him and Stagg for examination of the incoming Friday charts. Visitors are, therefore, urged to remain well away from the cliff edge. Another story relates that Harold was buried at the top of a cliff. There was a fatality in 2012 when 400 tonnes of rock fell onto the beach at Burton Bradstock and another cliff fall took place in 2016 at West Bay, near Bridport. Nearby to the south, Fowlsheugh is a coastal nature reserve, known for its 230 foot high cliff formations and habitat supporting prolific seabird nesting colonies. The south coast of Gower is the chief magnet for walkers, with a path stretching from Mumbles Head across the cliff tops, beaches and coastal woodland to Rhossili. Admiralty House is another nice attraction where locals and visitors enjoy cliff diving into the beautiful blue water and where you are able to see Dockyard in the distance. Thomas acquired a garage a hundred yards from the house on a cliff ledge which he turned into his writing shed, and where he wrote several of his most acclaimed poems. Northern gannets usually nest close together on cliff ledges. The nest is a huge edifice of sticks in a tree or on a coastal cliff. St Govan lived within a small cave in the fissure of the cliff. Show More Sentences Shoreline indicators may be morphological features such as the berm crest, scarp edge, vegetation line, dune toe, dune crest and cliff or the bluff crest and toe. I disencumbered myself by main force, and fled, but he overhied me, knocked me down, and threatened, with dreadful oaths, to throw me from the cliff. The cliff itself, like the rest of Brighton's soil, is chalk. The layer of sediment underlies a cliff on the beach, but after stormy weather the protective layer of sand was washed away and the sediment exposed. Nesting sites are along coastal cliff faces, as well as the artificial cliff faces created by apartment buildings with accessible ledges or roof spaces. The lobster had burrowed through thick mud deposits that had formed since the Solent flooded, and into the original surface of the cliff when the Solent was dry. In 1885 a tunnel was dug towards the cliff face from the parade grounds. Large European gorse bushes grow on the cliff, with the shelter they provide allowing other plants such as wild cabbage and bird's foot trefoil to thrive. Abrasion or corrasion is caused by waves launching seaload at the cliff. There are several seafront hotels, a cliff lift from the seafront to the top of the cliff, a putting course, several cafes and restaurants and pubs, and a large, clean beach. There are a couple of cafes on the cliff open during the summer months. According to other sources, the highest cliff in the world, about 1,340 m high, is the east face of Great Trango in the Karakoram mountains of northern Pakistan. The peregrine falcon nests in a scrape, normally on cliff edges. The timber defences were destroyed or damaged by the storm with most of the beach swept away, and a large amount of cliff eroded exposing the underlying clay. A lighthouse crowns a lofty cliff on the north-east extremity, and though of doubtful value as a sealight forms a good mark for entering Clew Bay. At Llanbadrig Point, a small disused cliff quarry, now colonised by heath and grassland, attracts butterflies including wall brown, grayling and gate-keeper. Examples from Classical Literature When I got a piece along the road, I heard something go 124 bama fall of rock, or something, down the cliff. And now he was toiling up a steep cliff, and had slung his drum over his shoulder, and stuck his drumsticks in his bandoleer. She looked over the cliff down an appalling depth of hundreds of feet. Where they stood an abutment of the cliff hid the ravine below. The eggs of the barn swallow and cliff swallow are more or less speckled. At the baobab she turned and gazed back along the cliff edge. The cloud crowned cliff did not appall my high-reaching eye. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of cliff? Words that rhyme with cliff What is the plural of cliff? What is the adjective for cliff? What is the noun for cliff? Translations for cliff Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words client-side clientship client-server clients' client's clients Cliff cliffhanger cliff-hanger cliffhangers cliffhanging cliff-hanging 5-letter Words Starting With c cl cli clif