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
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
The posture was the same as that day she faced Pong at the cliff’s edge, but this was a very different girl.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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