noun
definition
A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
synonyms
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A point where something abruptly fails or decreases in value etc.
Examples of cliff in a Sentence
The car slid off the cliff before I got back.
They reached the cliff before the first arrows fell.
His gaze lifted to the cliff top.
On one side was a massive rock cliff covered with green moss.
Her gaze lifted to the top of the cliff on her right.
If that means I dive off a cliff to keep the Others from using me against you, I'll do it.
The kingdom perched on a cliff overlooking an ocean of velvet blue.
She swung the boulder up, ducking as it slapped the side of the cliff just short of the ledge and fell back to her.
Did you get her car off the cliff, dear?
It clattered along the top of the cliff and fell.
It was not within the walls, the encampment on the cliff, or within the passionate people themselves.
They ran through the forest toward the cliff, then ducked deeper into the forest before the trees gave way at the cliff.
The crime scene was the top of the cliff, where the rope was slashed.
He heard the shouts before they reached the helipad atop a cliff overlooking a valley.
Her surroundings blurred into light and shadows, and she felt the sickening sense of falling off the cliff again.
He'd spent days fighting to reach the Peak with the first one, and Lana had nearly gone off a cliff for another one.
Rocks had been piled to make a shelter under the cliff across from them.
Its course down the cliff was marked by the cracking of limbs.
You fell off a cliff?
The cliff and surrounding mountains were now behind them.
She trotted away from the cliff, slowing when she felt far enough from the edge.
Jared limped after him and appeared beside him on the cliff edge, taking in the morning view of grey skies and green forest with a look of distaste.
Kris had opened it near the cliff. On the other side of the world from the Caribbean Sanctuary, the French Alps were dark and cold, and it was sleeting.
She narrowed the distance again, this time rising up on her tiptoes to kiss him lightly on the lips, the final push over the cliff on which he teetered.
I was enjoying myself until I fell over the cliff.
Anyway, I was lucky it was a low cliff and that Yancey found me before a bear did.
I had my suspicions the day she fell from the cliff.
If he brought her more fish tomorrow morning, she'd have rope enough to reach the cliff edge ten feet above.
Hope he chucked it off a cliff.
She sucked in deep breaths, on the verge of hysterics after the freaky trip from cliff to spaceship.
He glanced up at the cliff and his complexion paled slightly.
You guys talk about spending overnights, hanging from a hammock sling, half way up some cliff on the other side of the world!
Yes. But Weller told me in the hospital that in the confusion of getting Shipton out of the gorge, no one examined the bottom of the cliff, where he landed.
Then you wouldn't have run off that cliff.
You could've popped that maniac before he dragged you over the cliff.
By the time she reached the cliff Jule indicated the next day, Yully's soul was humming like an electric wire.
Only two forms and a body draped in black remained on the cliff side.
Poor girl probably dove off a cliff.
She turned away, crossed the road, and skirted the darkened helipad resting at the edge of a cliff overlooking an extensive valley.
She perched on one of the boulders lining the cliff edge and tucked her legs beneath her.
Arnie tripped, the content of his fist flying free over the boulders to the cliff's edge.
The barracks are by the helipad by the cliff.
Smith went crazy and dove off a cliff.
He was still above the timberline, devoid of any trees that would impair visibility so it was clear enough to follow the road with its many switchbacks and curves traversing the mountain below him, a black line clinging to the side of the cliff like a pencil drawing.
He posed for their cameras and finally leaped from one ledge to another along the face of the cliff until he disappeared over the lip and into the forest above them.
Beyond that, less than three feet separated the road from the edge of a cliff.
At any time a gust of wind could send the car over the cliff.
It would be dark by the time they got the car off the edge of the cliff.
It poised for a moment and then took a dive off the cliff.
I knew when we started this business it was like I was in the backseat of Thelma and Louise's car hurtling toward a cliff edge.