sheer

IPA: ʃˈɪr

(chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
Obsolete spelling of shear [To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.]

Examples of "sheer" in Sentences

It was an act of sheer folly.
It is at the sheer size of the problem.
The sheer joy of the image is contagious.
It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man.
To me the Tirpitz affair was sheer bungling.
But the sheer joy of the image is contagious.
For sheer beauty of tone, she is unsurpassed.
It is more the sheer monumental size of the task.
The sheer size and bulk of the building is amazing.
Firstly, the sheer diversity of the communities is exemplary.
We don't have a lot of what we call sheer in the atmosphere, either.
There you can see what we call a sheer marker where that little spin is.
Now that's what I call sheer perfection : Thanks for the recipe, Nandita!
The Messenger Bag Director's Chair is what you call sheer portability, if not innovation.
Callie walked slowly in a direct line to her mother, her hands on her hips, her expression sheer disappointment.
Later, after they had picked up their children at nursery school and taken them home to nap, two of the women cried, in sheer relief, just to know they were not alone.
Ambinder also mentioned what he described as sheer coincidence, that he himself got married in the District last weekend to his longtime partner, a business consultant.
On the one hand, Mr. Wood wrote, it allowed the writer to “revel in sheer storytelling,” and on the other to “undermine, ironically, the very ‘truths’ and simplicities his apparently unsophisticated narrators traded in.”