How to Use abseil in a Sentence

abseil

verb

• The stakes couldn’t be higher, as the men abseil, climb and hike into the heart of the jungle.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2026
• What to read next The highlight of the cruise for many is a pirate party on the ship’s main deck, complete with Captain Jack Sparrow abseiling from the funnel.
  — Helen Wright, TheWeek, 11 Mar. 2026
• Tom Cruise thrilled fans at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games closing ceremony by abseiling from the roof of the Stade de France.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 14 July 2026
• Other videos showing Cuba’s aged military training are tougher to explain —for example, special forces abseiling in tandem down a tower clad with sheet metal at Playa Baracoa, a military base on the outskirts of Havana.
  — Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
• Adrenaline junkies will be happy to get their fix abseiling, ziplining, and jumping off waterfalls in Nelson Lakes National Park with new kids on the adventure block Canyoning Aotearoa, or rock climbing down a series of waterfalls (one with a drop of nearly 200 feet) at Wildwire in Wanaka.
  — Petrina Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2022