sheer drop

Example Sentences

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“It was a sheer drop, almost 90 degree drop. We were all young. We rappelled down to the ice on the glacier,” Nafziger said.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2021

One of them, the experienced guide and technician, Robert “Doc” Wright, slips and finds himself suspended precariously above a sheer drop.

From Washington Post • Sep. 24, 2021

I crawled up it and found a sheer drop facing the inaccessible summit.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

Now, there is sheer drop of about 10m from the top of the bank to the riverbed.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2017

Hazel appreciated that, but it didn’t make the sheer drop any less scary.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan