precipice

Universities and the towns they’ve made flourish are on the precipice of a serious crisis.

They are always suspended over a precipice, dangling by a slender thread that shows every sign of snapping.

When Brecht penned these lines, his continent hovered on the precipice of a journey into hell.

We always seem to be on the precipice of falling back into recession.

Here we stand, on the precipice of another glorious summer—but what will it hold?

There was a sense of standing together on the precipice, but holding each other aloft by sheer will, conjoined by rage.

Louis had no sooner reached the window, than he would have thrown himself from the flinty butments upon the top of the precipice.

His impetuosity called forth the expression, “He is a fanatic who will lead us to a precipice.”

Matt went down, with the motor-cycle on top of him, head and shoulders over the brink of the precipice.

In this way they may drive in a cut having the length of a hundred feet or more from the face of the precipice.

When Queeker came to try it he felt uneasy—sitting as he did so high, and looking down such a precipice as it seemed to him.