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• “She sheathed her legs in the sheerest of the nylons that her father had brought back from the Continent, and slipped her feet into the toeless, high-heeled shoes of black suède.”
• Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
• sheer ale
• Thou sheer, immaculate, and silver fountain.
• Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
• I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
• This poem is sheer nonsense.
• It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.
• That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.
• Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
• Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries[...].
• A horse sheers at a bicycle.
• I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
• sheer number of those things
• sheer impossibility