Synonyms

1. precipitant
2. precipitate
3. hasty
4. overhasty

Sentence Examples

1. As the smoke seeped out into the corridor, he heard a muttered exclamation, followed by the precipitous entry of the guard.
2. Aided by Duncan and the younger Mohican, the two latter descended the precipitous sides of that hill which they had so lately ascended under so very different auspices, and whose summit had so nearly proved the scene of their massacre.
3. That it was not the case, however, my precipitous downfall gave testimony enough why it was not so, can only be explained by a reference to those possible geological disturbances to which I have formerly alluded.
4. I was too transfixed on the precipitous drop before me to turn and answer him.
5. The one in question was high and precipitous its top flattened, as usual but with one of its sides more than ordinarily irregular.
6. At a terrific height directly above us, and upon the very verge of the precipitous descent, hovered a gigantic ship of, perhaps, four thousand tons.
7. The rising sun silhouetted Dun Edin, the fort of Edin, as it stood on its precipitous rock at the head of a steep ridge.
8. For, when they had brought Kadmus into the depths of a cavern from where he could look into a precipitous ravine.
9. The older and younger siblings are almost identical, with fish-like blue eyes and mousy hair, sculpted upwards into precipitous waxy towers.
10. Though protected from any great danger of observation by the precipitous banks, and the thick shrubbery which skirted the stream, no precaution known to an Indian attack was neglected.