SHEER in a Sentence
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89 example sentences for SHEER, such as:
1. With the fire of sheer sensuality.
2. The date went sheer out of my head.
3. It is sheer madness to drive so fast.
4. It was sheer, unspeakable, impotent hate.
5. It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
2. The date went sheer out of my head.
3. It is sheer madness to drive so fast.
4. It was sheer, unspeakable, impotent hate.
5. It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
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Meanings and Examples of SHEER
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sheer
a. so thin as to transmit light
a. very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
Classic Sentence: (55 in 4 pages)
1 He had pushed his way by sheer instinct and sheerer effrontery on to the stage and to the front of it, with his plays.
2 His moment of sheer thrill with the two Chatterleys, when he simply carried Connie and Clifford away, was one of the supreme moments of Michaelis' life.
3 Mrs Bolton, who was listening in the next room, heard in sheer admiration.
4 With the fire of sheer sensuality.
5 It needs sheer sensuality even to purify and quicken the mind.
6 She crept in sheer misery through the holly and through the wooden fence, stumbled down the little ditch and up into the lane, where Hilda was just getting out of the car in vexation.
7 --At that moment he felt a sheer love for the woman.
8 It was sheer relaxation on his part, letting go all his manhood, and sinking back to a childish position that was really perverse.
9 It was sheer, unspeakable, impotent hate.
10 If she had had a little more self-control she would have attenuated the emotion to nothing by sheer reasoning, and so have killed it off.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 3 How a Little Sound Produced a Great Dream
11 "Yes, I met her this evening," he said, as though it were spoken under the sheer necessity of preserving honesty.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
12 The vision of what ought to have been is thrown aside in sheer weariness, and browbeaten human endeavour listlessly makes the best of the fact that is.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
13 The other seized the die, and clenched his teeth upon it in sheer rage, as if he would bite it in pieces.
14 Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
15 It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 The sheer amount of data makes the mind boggle.
2 The area is under threat from the sheer number of tourists using it.
3 Our immediate response to the attack was sheer horror.
4 Our army was beaten by sheer weight of numbers.
5 But for the sheer number of performances, there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals.
6 The date went sheer out of my head.
7 It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
8 It is sheer madness to drive so fast.
9 The waterfall makes a sheer drop of one thousand feet.
10 He maintained order by sheer force of personality.
11 It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.
12 By sheer luck nobody was hurt in the explosion.
13 Lying on a sunny beach is my idea of sheer bliss.
14 The interview was sheer torture from start to finish.
15 The first six months of marriage were sheer bliss.