How to Use cliff in a Sentence

cliff

noun

• Standing at the edge of the cliff, we watched the waves crash on the shore far below.
• Further on, a rope blocked one of the stairways up to the cliff.
  — Robert O'Harrow Jr., Washington Post, 3 June 2022
• As the section of the cliff broke off, her husband sped away for safety.
  — Rachel Ramirez and Sharif Paget, CNN, 1 June 2022
• On big days at Pe‘ahi, Kody’s mother took the boys out to the cliff.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• For climbing, the sandstone cliffs at Long Dong soar above crashing waves.
  — Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 16 Dec. 2024
• Watch this baby eagle rescued from the side of a cliff on Catalina Island.
  — Allison Moses, USA TODAY, 8 June 2022
• Twenty kittens were reportedly killed during that film, and another was dropped over a cliff to get a shot.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 May 2022
• One of the friends, while trying to find a spot to use the bathroom, lost her footing and fell down the cliff onto the rocky beach, Avila said.
  — Hyeyoon Alyssa Choi, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2022
• Or rappel down 20-million-year-old cliffs in Kangaroo Point.
  — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
• Rondinaia is Italian for swallow’s nest, an ideal name for a house that appears to teeter on a cliff’s edge.
  — Christopher Bollen, Town & Country, 8 June 2022
• This included projection mapping for Moana 2 on the cliffs of Capri in Italy in addition to a sail boat.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Dec. 2024
• Firefighters found the four people 300 feet down the cliff, said fire dispatch supervisor Martin Rangel.
  — CBS News, 23 May 2022
• Even if the glacier's entire ice shelf were to collapse today, the resulting ice cliffs would likely not be tall enough to crumble and trigger the catastrophic chain reaction previously feared.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
• This part of the cliff line is going back by feet a year.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
• The two used the ropes to climb up and down the cliff, ferrying water and grain to the horse.
  — oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2022
• The pair throw themselves off a cliff at the end of the tragic story.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Here, Moore takes a shift hauling Blumer’s 56-pounder up a cliff.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 16 May 2024
• The passersby by looked over the cliff and noticed what appeared to be a body.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2023
• But last year, the line fell off a cliff despite one of the cleanest bills of health for any group in the league.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
• Here and now, next to this cliff, the fate of the Fifth Empire shall be decided!
  — Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
• Scientists have not said if the ship is believed to be at the top of the cliff or at the bottom.
  — Mark Price The Charlotte Observer (tns), al, 19 Apr. 2023
• Thelma and Louise, but there's no driving off the cliff.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 17 Sep. 2022
• Dipak would pull me to safety when a yak tried to nudge me off a cliff.
  — Michael Clinton, Men's Health, 14 June 2023
• Then Tom flies over us hanging off the end of a helicopter, gets to the edge of the cliff, and just jumps off.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• The driver of the Jeep that fell off the cliff was swept out to sea about 100 yards and then directed back to shore.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The winding pathways that dot the rugged cliffs plunge through pine trees and goat herds to meet the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 22 June 2023
• And part way through the season, there’s a scene where young Misty pushes her friend off of a cliff.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
• One ram led three of its fellows up a 30-foot cliff, into the shade of a small side canyon.
  — Jim Kristofic, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2023
• The class falls off a cliff at the point guard position after that.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• On the 18k red gold version of this model, the cliffs are red gold colored.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024