Use sheer in a sentence
- On two occasions, when the falls were sheer, they had to disembark and walk along little portages through the green raspberry bushes. [9]
- I believe I went out of sheer curiosity to hear what Hodder would have to say. [9]
- She yielded herself to the witchery of the hour, the sheer delight of forthfaring into the unknown. [9]
- At any rate, this modern notion of giving them their liberty is sheer folly. [9]
- Little by little they drew to the edge of the rock, from which there was a sheer drop of two hundred feet. [11]
- This feeling, on the drive homeward, was swept away by sheer elation at the prospect of the trip before her. [9]
- Some leaned against the cliff, others against each other; many stood sheer and alone; all were crumbling, cracked, rotten. [13]
- The shivering of the boat under the beating of the wheels was sheer misery to them. [5]
- On the farther summit, above Anacapri, a precipice of two thousand feet sheer down to the water on the other side, hangs a light cloud. [4]
- On the other side was a narrow margin, and then a sheer wall of hills in exquisite verdure. [11]
- I could have shot him, from sheer vexation. [5]
- It was almost sheer; its top was flat and level. [11]
- My life is sheer misery. [10]
- I halted in sheer embarrassment on the threshold, looked up at his face, and came on, troubled. [9]
- Heedless of the risk he ran, sheer admiration sent Stephen to the carriage door. [9]
- The man then read the future for each of us; my fortune was sheer folly, whereof no single word ever came true. [10]
- He had influenced people by the sheer force of presence. [11]
- What had come over the poor, suffering youth whom he, Timon, had escorted to the Circus out of sheer compassion? [10]
- I fell asleep once more from sheer weariness of joy. [9]
- She led him on from sheer wilfulness. [11]
- But at this moment he was stronger, and he drew her eyes up by the sheer force of his will. [11]
- He was a man who had fought and conquered, and who fought on for the sheer love of it. [9]
- This journey was indeed sheer flight from his own weakness and from the beautiful creature who could never be anything to him. [10]
- I was lost in sheer, bewildering happiness. [9]
- For the moment I was silent with sheer surprise. [9]
- It was sheer human glory in the deed of a fearless man. [13]
- Sheer courage carried her through it, I know, for her hand trembled so when I took it, and she was very pale. [9]
- She went into her own room and wept, and after many hours fell into a dreamless sleep of sheer exhaustion. [9]
- He stared at her in sheer perplexity. [9]
- He had gone headlong to the conquest, and by sheer force of temperament and weight of passion he had swept her off her feet. [11]
- Nothing else could have brought home to her like this the sheer tragedy of their plight. [9]
- How often she had quoted them for their sheer pagan beauty! [11]
- He let her go soon enough then, but he stamped with his foot for sheer rage. [10]
- He did it from sheer force of habit, for he knew he could get nothing. [5]
- He saw her face, and then he lost it again in sheer weariness at the effort. [4]
- You have nothing else than love, and without it life is shallow indeed, is sheer emptiness. [10]
- And between the eager shouts came a moan of sheer despair. [9]
- Laflamme would never drive over the edge, whereas no one could tell what sheer Carmen might not suddenly take. [4]
- One looks straight down upon the vast frozen river called the Gorner Glacier, from the Gorner Grat, a sheer precipice twelve hundred feet high. [5]
- To love a blind man was sheer madness, but in her was a superstitious belief that he would see again. [11]
- The sheer sweetness and terror of it! [9]
- He was part and parcel of that American environment in which literary ambition was regarded as sheer madness. [9]
- Of its forest and glade, its countless herds of elk and buffalo, its salt-licks and Indians, until we fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. [9]
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