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.
• On big days at Pe‘ahi, Kody’s mother took the boys out to the cliff.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• Further on, a rope blocked one of the stairways up to the cliff.
  — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• The city is facing a budgetary cliff in the next few years.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 May 2021
• The two used the ropes to climb up and down the cliff, ferrying water and grain to the horse.
  — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022
• Moreover, the post-2014 woes happened as the price of crude fell off a cliff.
  — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2022
• Two climbers were perched on a cliff, while Arvig hung from a rope about 260 feet above the ground.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Nov. 2021
• The age cliff could still come, but Henry didn’t look old in 2024.
  — Gary Davenport, New York Times, 31 July 2025
• The pair throw themselves off a cliff at the end of the tragic story.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• The rescue group said Smith was found dead at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff.
  — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 6 May 2021
• In the chaos, a fight erupts on the cliffs—Tanner and one of the twins grapple, and someone goes over the edge.
  — Martine Paris, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• Scott Johnson's body was found at the base of a cliff in Sydney in 1988.
  — NBC News, 3 May 2022
• The next day her car was found with its wheels overhanging the edge of a cliff.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• Initial exploration will be done among the rock piles at the base of the cliff.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 7 Feb. 2022
• In-ho shoots him in the shoulder, and Jun-ho falls off the cliff into the water.
  — Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2021
• Smith's body was found at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff in the Auxier Ridge area of the gorge.
  — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 5 May 2021
• Here, Moore takes a shift hauling Blumer’s 56-pounder up a cliff.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
• What is the point of watching Vin Diesel drive his car off a cliff on a tiny phone screen?
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 28 June 2021
• The passersby by looked over the cliff and noticed what appeared to be a body.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2023
• Or, picture the thin white woman in dancer pose on the edge of a cliff with her eyes closed.
  — Marie Southard Ospina, SELF, 11 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Here and now, next to this cliff, the fate of the Fifth Empire shall be decided!
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• 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
• Vic comes stumbling out of the road, Don swerves to miss him… and goes flying off a cliff.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 18 Mar. 2022
• 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
• This is not the first time Social Security has faced a funding cliff.
  — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Aug. 2025
• Through a gate, past an old bathhouse — once one of Hungary’s first concrete structures — a narrow alley leads to an unmarked doorway in the cliff.
  — Jennifer Walker, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2025