precipitous

"We see no reason why your office should feel the need to take any precipitous action."

There was no time for anything other than precipitous action.

On our right was the precipitous fall to the City's streets.

"John, you think that was maybe just a little precipitous?"

Children under 14 are not allowed because of the precipitous setting.

However, the decline has been more precipitous than some expected.

To act upon either fact at this time is, we suggest, precipitous.

"But it is now clearly precipitous for that to happen this fall."

The decline was most precipitous among young people, he said.

The only path was a precipitous one, down from this high ground.

Women and other age groups also reported a decline, though not as precipitous.

"We do not want to take precipitous action," he said.

The road was long and it led through precipitous mountains.

"I think they will come to realize that they've been too precipitous."

For on this side the peak was far more precipitous than had been the other.

In some parts of the country, the drop has been even more precipitous.

Go north or east, and they just get taller, more precipitous.

He looked up at the precipitous hills around the valley.

From a high in 1990, the crime rate went into precipitous decline.

However, in light of later knowledge, the decision was deemed precipitous.

Some of the most precipitous tracks have actually been closed off.

It was still a long way ahead, up a precipitous slope.

When we got to the stream bank, it was about 10 feet high, but not precipitous.

In the 15- to 59-year age group, the drop has been more precipitous: 83 percent, to 455.

"Our only concern is the precipitous way it has been implemented."