"step" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The measuring device, a graduated column, sits below the level of the Nile at the bottom of a flight of precipitous steps, which the guard will cheerfully let y.
- He managed, somehow, to twist himself about as they skidded down the precipitous steps.
- "We really want to do it in concert with our friends and allies and not start taking immediate, precipitous steps, because there are some very sensitive issues here," he said.
- I gave it her; and she regarded the now visible, but precipitous steps, as if calculating her capacity to descend.
- Rockson considered that he could easily shove his particular guard off the precipitous topmost step and manage to land upon him.
- Avoid precipitous steps.
- He crowded so close upon Tyrus and the young queen that he nearly pushed them down the precipitous steps.
- Like three of his lamented ancestors, the old man was taking the long plunge down the precipitous steps to the stone passage at the bottom.
- She panted up the precipitous steps.
- But he called on lawmakers to "avoid precipitous steps that may bring short-term budget relief but will cripple us in the long run."
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