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
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
The way one character inexplicably parks her car comically close to a cliff’s edge?
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021
The fire caller would yell “let the fire fall,” and the glowing embers from the campfire would be thrown from the cliff’s edge.
From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019
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
