Some of it was clifflike, and some was a jagged slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robot Adept]

"But how are we going to get down this clifflike slope?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Color of Her Panties]

Nanagada's coasts were too rocky and clifflike to land on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

They nest in NYC, too - they like clifflike places to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mostly birds of prey] Reference

She glanced past his clifflike shoulder and saw the Zacharians in bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

"It must have been a huge, clifflike thing perpendicular to the rest of the surface.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

Water cascaded from the carrier's clifflike hull into the harbor while more entered the bilges below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Storm Rising]

And there at last was the mighty river confined between clifflike banks, not as wide as the lower Rhodanus, but flowing much faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grass Crown]

No straight approach from the west was possible, because the bridge footings ran nearly to the sheer, clifflike face of the cutaway mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates of Thorbardin]

In John Updike's "The Beauty of the Lilies," fictional Presbyterian minister Clarence Wilmot's faith founders on the "clifflike riddle of predestination.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Highway To Heaven] Reference

This path angled down below the clifflike western face of the peak the castle stood on, wending its way curvaceously through pastures and forest and slope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Labor Policy] Reference

Three wooden guard towers ringed the apron, and a stockade fence joined the towers and ran from the innermost towers to clifflike sections of the mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alector's Choice]

I told her it was impossible, but as we both stared up at the black clifflike side of the big ship sliding past us, its propellers mumbling, I knew what she felt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time and Again]

At only one point in his visual range did the smooth harmony of metal and tinted plastic end, where the city dropped clifflike four thousand feet to the surrounding parks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Way Home]

I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above Thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

We stood for a long time, all of us, on he summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference

Wearing a pink tie and a well-cut suit, the 63-year-old executive piloted his Mercedes-Benz sedan past the clifflike hull of a Royal Navy warship toward a training grounds one day recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ahoy, Billionaires:] Reference

When they came to a clifflike formation that would have taken time to skirt, Mach managed to conjure some rope, and used it to swing himself down, drawing on a skill developed for the Game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of Phaze]

Their destination was a tower jutting up from the sheer clifflike wall of the city; it stood somewhat apart from its neighbors, and there must be guns and armor behind its smooth plastic fa-ade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Way Home]

There, shrouded by darkness and fog, was a gap in the mountain-a fissure four times the full reach of a man, extending from the clifflike face of the peak above down to the deep valley below, shrouded in nocturnal fog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Centaur Aisle]

He had not gone that way before and was surprised to find that, instead of the low banks that edged the river where the boys were camped, round the bend were steep, almost clifflike acclivities on both sides of the stream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone] Reference

At one instant, the street ended in nothing but sky; at the next, Chris was staring at a wall of sheared earth, its rim looming clifflike, fifty feet or more above the new margin of the city; - and then the blank sky was back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cities In Flight]

Strata of varicolored rock marked the clifflike heights and where black veins stood out with every suggestion of coal, the young observers got their first impression of the mineral possibilities of the unsettled and unknown land into which they were penetrating.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference

He has to pause at the foot of Chris's clifflike staircase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

There's no Lake Shore Drive, no clifflike condos hogging the best beaches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Perpendicular, clifflike walls shut us off from retreat to the land and there was not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Labrador Trail] Reference

At this point they rose to a clifflike headland a hundred and fifty feet high, flat on top.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

There it had a wide mouth with stony clifflike gates at either side whose feet were piled with shingles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hobbit]

Low hills with clifflike faces; shallow nullahs used only a month or two a year to carry the monsoon deluges to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Son of Power] Reference

On the west of the plain of Champagne rises, 300 feet, with a curious clifflike suddenness, the Plateau of Sézanne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne] Reference

A woman tumbled 80 feet down a steep, clifflike embankment after falling from a retaining wall Friday afternoon near the Sacramento River in Redding.    From Wordnik.com.  [redding.com Stories] Reference

But the warm impulses of neighborhood life, like the cries of the boys at their evening game of baseball, broke unheeded against that clifflike impassivity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference

The valley was in the shape of an ellipse, the sides of which were formed by great clifflike mountains, and the other two by hills lower, but still of considerable boldness and size.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Footprints] Reference

Passengers were entering the vast, damp enclosure; porters, pier officers, ship's officers, sailors, passed to and fro as they moved toward the gangway where, in the electric glare of lamps, the clifflike side of the gigantic liner loomed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark Star] Reference

The effect is as though a geological fault had driven the original plateau from north to south throughout its entire length, and then as though there had been a general subsidence of the plain, giving rise to the clifflike formations known as Les Falaises de Champagne, at the foot of which runs the road from La Fère-Champenoise to Rheims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12) The War Begins, Invasion of Belgium, Battle of the Marne] Reference

" He then walked back to the height of the clifflike side of the hill, that with the crashing waves at its foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinnamon Roll] Reference