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
He said the boy had “started getting a bit moody”, and that he warned him not to cross a safety fence close to the cliff’s edge.
From BBC • Jun. 6, 2024
But here, too, Iran seems to understand that it is near the cliff’s edge.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023
The way one character inexplicably parks her car comically close to a cliff’s edge?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021
Sigurd’s horse was on the other side of the flat area, tethered to a live tree that grew beside the river that roared over the cliff’s edge.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack