Examples of cliff in a Sentence
Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
rock climbers scaling steep cliffs
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Senior transfer Jeremiah Oden started in Gwath’s place Wednesday, but his recent form has fallen off a proverbial cliff.
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
For Black women in academia, breaking the glass ceiling often leads straight to a glass cliff.
—Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Connecticut Connecticut is the only other state that has moved to replace at least some of the expiring subsidies for those whose incomes are over 400% of the federal poverty line, the group of consumers who fell off the federal subsidy cliff, Norris said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
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Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
For Black women in academia, breaking the glass ceiling often leads straight to a glass cliff.
—Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
Connecticut Connecticut is the only other state that has moved to replace at least some of the expiring subsidies for those whose incomes are over 400% of the federal poverty line, the group of consumers who fell off the federal subsidy cliff, Norris said.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 23 Jan. 2026
At 836,000 square miles, Greenland is nearly 80 percent ice, a frozen leaf dangling in the far North Atlantic with dramatic, ragged edges, impossibly sheer cliffs that dwarf even El Capitan, and a massive ice sheet as thick as 11,000 feet.
—Tim Neville, Outside, 23 Jan. 2026
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“Cliff.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cliff. Accessed 25 Jan. 2026.
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cliff
noun
: a high steep surface of rock, earth, or ice
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