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Mars Hill Church leaders blamed bad publicity for the precipitous drop in attendance and tithes.

That would have been a highly precipitous withdrawal and would have looked suspiciously like defeat.

This sort of precipitous drop can reflect gyrations in the  price of gas.

Part of the reason for this precipitous decline is likely climate change.

The plea deal represents a precipitous fall from grace, writes John Avlon.

Ripperda's equipage wound down a long and twisting defile between two precipitous rocks.

Subig is a fine natural harbour, but with precipitous shores just as Nature has made it.

The Prussians held an apparently impregnable position on the Landgrafenberg, a precipitous hill which commanded the town.

A very shallow sheet of water flowed down over a broad but nowise precipitous ledge of rock into the valley beneath.

The last cone of the mountain gave us some trouble: the route was very precipitous, and lay over bare, hot masses of rock.