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cliff English

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cliff

A cliff is a vertical (straight up and down) rock face. Don't go too close to the cliff or you will fall off.

cliff

(= drop) a steep high face of rock he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town a steep drop

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Simple sentences

Tom fell down the cliff to his death.
One more step, and I would have fallen off the cliff.
Keep away from the vertical cliff!
It was a real challenge for us to go down the cliff on a rope.
His son fell over the cliff.
While she sat on the cliff and combed her hair, she sang a wonderfully beautiful song.
Tom pushed Mary off the edge of the cliff.
His new owner took him to a high cliff overlooking the sea, put a stone around his neck, tied a rope to one of his hind feet, gave him a push, and threw him into the water.
A hang glider launched off the cliff.
Tom pushed Mary off the cliff.
The eagle perched atop the cliff, scanning the valley spread out beneath it.
If your friend jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?
Tom did a handstand on the edge of the cliff.
If you shout from the top of a cliff, you can hear the echo of your voice.
A single step, and you will fall over the cliff.
The bus fell off the cliff, killing all 10 aboard.
The cliff is almost vertical.
The cliff hangs over the sea.
We stood on the brink of a cliff.
They climbed to the top of a cliff.
Be like the palm tree - the more it gets pressed by the cliff, the quicker and more beautiful its rise to the top.
Tom committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.
I hope that you fall off a cliff.
A man standing on the cliff was about to commit suicide by jumping into the void.
The bus went over the cliff.

Movie subtitles

Better to stop than drive the car gently over a cliff, isn't it?
Out in her car one night, drunk as the devil. over the cliff.
He's on a cliff where a whole army couldn't get at him.
I think you can make it if you crawl along the cliff in back of you.
I'm thinking of Rodriguez when he climbed that cliff, knowing that he's gonna get killed.
You can help me jump over that cliff.
Grasping the hand of someone leaning over the cliff.
Do you remember that cliff where you first saw me in Monte Carlo?
If we go over a cliff, wake me up.
If you ran a hired car over a cliff, you'd have to pay for it.
Dr. Edwardes went over a snow cliff.
Fred, I want you to meet Cliff Scully, an old friend of mine.
Cliff Scully's an old friend of mine.
Can't you think for yourself? Go on Cliff.
Kemp's car going over the cliff was another of Charlie Baker's, and his Universal miniature department's efforts. As usual, a first-rate one.
My home is on a white cliff overlooking the sea.
The house on the cliff.
They found his car gone over a cliff and a revolver in his hand.
Pushed his wife falls off a cliff. Oh that's marvellous.
Now if you must know the truth. I had that fellow push his wife off the cliff.. So as to get Alan back to London and be alone with you.
Do you still say that your wife's fall from Dover cliff to the rocks beneath..
He persists in this story of that other woman on the cliff. I hammered away at him all afternoon, but he wouldn't be shaken.
His story of that other woman on the cliff.. Is one of the most fantastic tales I've ever heard in a courtroom. He couldn't even describe her.
All the fellow did was to push his wife off a cliff.
Thousands of tourists visit this cliff yearly.
When you got to the foot of the cliff, what did you do?
When you reached the top of the cliff. What did you do with the money?
Hey, Cliff.
Father's going to build us a villa in the woods, Grazia, just at the top of the cliff.
We wanted to talk to the commander about a house he owns On top of the cliff.
Fell off the cliff.
A week after mary fell from the cliff trying to save her from suicide.
Think of it. those two women struggling on the cliff.
She was here when it happened. the friend of the poor lady that went over the cliff.
He mentions a child crying on the cliff that night.
She went into the nursery, Picked up their baby, and raced to the cliff.
Carmel reached the cliff by the dead tree.
Maybe that accounts for Stella's queer business on the cliff. What was that?

News and current affairs

As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
Whoever wins, a fiscal cliff looms at the end of 2012.
While a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.
Breathtaking brinkmanship and 11th-hour decision-making leaving all bystanders wondering whether this time the cart might in fact go over the cliff?
Yet the consequences of our individual actions are typically so far removed from our daily awareness that we can go right over the cliff without even knowing it.
But the most important part of the deal to avert the fiscal cliff was the restoration of the efficient payroll tax.
It is true that some macroeconomic modelers, including the Congressional Budget Office, forecasted that going over the cliff would have caused a recession.
NEW YORK - In the shadow of the euro crisis and America's fiscal cliff, it is easy to ignore the global economy's long-term problems.
Investors are increasingly wary of a global financial meltdown, most likely emanating from Europe, but with the US fiscal cliff, political instability in the Middle East, and a slowdown in China all coming into play.
Sure, the decision to invade Iraq was a big help in pushing the country's finances off a cliff, but that is far from the whole story.
Other friends and family stood and watched from the beach and cliff top.
Not jumping off a cliff is easier than turning around in mid-fall.
Where else can you witness an ex-president commit suicide by jumping off a cliff near his residence?
First, America's mini-deal on taxes has not steered it fully away from the fiscal cliff.
Before trying to rise to this challenge, what can we learn from this walk along the cliff edge?
The largest waterfall in Asia, it plunges over a sheer cliff more than 200 feet high in a thundering display of foam, mist, and rainbows.
Like lemmings at the cliff's edge, central banks seem steeped in denial of the risks they face.
All of this suggests that, whether in the lame-duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.
Their logic is that if we are about to rush off a cliff, we need to take extreme measures.
But if that is the benchmark, we could say that jumping off a cliff is the best way to get down from a mountain; after all, the descent has been stopped.
Some will express surprise at this strange country, which is never so great as when it is on the edge of a cliff.
Carved in the cliff side or protected in small beautiful museums, these remarkable objects were the pride and joy of local Muslims, followers of the faith for more than a millennium.
Then, once the European project is halfway over the cliff, the federalist moment might arrive.
The first is America's self-imposed fiscal cliff, which, if not avoided, could throw the United States into recession, with massive repercussions for the world economy, and thus for Europe.
Or must it plunge over every cliff that it approaches?

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