The ground beyond the road fell away precipitously.
The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.
No doubt American neocons have already prepared the groundwork for blaming Obama who is allegedly withdrawing precipitously from Baghdad.
Five years later Forbes Media's earnings power has declined precipitously, and Elevation is nowhere near the return on investment it had predicted.
'This is a severe recession and states' tax revenues have dropped off precipitously while their expenses have not,' said Bernard Baumohl of Economic Outlook Group LLC, a forecasting firm.
Opinion polls show public support for the government falling precipitously.
Of course, foreign vintners probably rushed into things a bit precipitously.
With sales dropping precipitously, auto makers haven't been able to cut production fast enough to prevent inventory increases.
The dollar plunged precipitously.
The land dropped precipitously down to the rocky shore.
Seahorse's populations could fall precipitously, because so much of their habitat could have been lost to the spill.
the mountains rose precipitously from the shore.
The coastal mountains descended precipitously to the very edge of the Pacific
The shakeout in travel agencies was particularly vicious. After years of holding steady, the total number of agencies fell precipitously, almost exactly mirroring the growth of online shopping.
He held his hand out in the air, plotting an imaginary line that dropped precipitously to his knees.
Tuna stocks are declining precipitously due to overfishing.
We don't want to act precipitously.
Spending on consumer durable goods like autos dropped precipitously in 1930.
During the storm's main phase, which began four hours after its start, the magnetic field strength on the earth's surface fell precipitously, dropping300 nanoteslas below its normal value.
Commercial and residential properties saw their values increase precipitously in a real estate boom that began in the 1990s and increased uninterrupted for nearly a decade.
