cliff's edge
Example Sentences
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A huge landslide has left Sicilian homes teering on a cliff’s edge.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026
The wall was built to protect several condo complexes perched on the cliff’s edge from landslides.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
But here, too, Iran seems to understand that it is near the cliff’s edge.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
Mr Ramaphosa was widely viewed as a clean, principled figure, who could steer the ANC, and the country, away from the cliff's edge.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2022
He let the moment at the cliff’s edge come to him again, wincing with the hurt of it but watching his father’s face closely.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
