noun
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A sheer curtain or fabric.
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Use sheers to maximize natural light.
adjective
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Very thin or transparent.
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Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
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Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
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(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
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I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
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Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
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The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.
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Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
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It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.
adverb
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Clean; quite; at once.
Examples of sheer in a Sentence
Thielemann was at length overborne by sheer weight of numbers, and towards II A.M.
The product is available in five sheer shades.
If the magnitude and increasing complexity of these creations fails to impress you, the sheer quantity should suffice.
Cynthia began to quietly cry out of sheer frustration while Gladys Turnbull snored loudly.
He was at once elected to the national house of representatives, and took his seat in December 1 795 There, by sheer force of ability and industry, he wrested from all competitors the leadership of the Republicans, and became the most dangerous opponent whom the Federalists had ever encountered in congress.
For sheer cruising, a long board is best.
She wore a nightgown that was a bit too sheer not to be covered by a robe.
In this instance it would seem to be sheer credulity.
Once all makeup is applied, set with a loose, sheer powder.
The rope was taut with his evil weight and she could hear his movements as he carefully climbed down the sheer wall to his ice-bound lair below.
The coast scenery, especially on the west, is always picturesque and often grand, the cliffs, sheer precipices of brilliant colouring, reaching a height of over l000 ft.
Sheer Cover differed slightly from Bare Minerals because of the need to specialize.
Sheer coverage was marketed as a mineral make that not only was good for the skin, but as a makeup that could cover unsightly flaws.
One end is filled with the plumper, a pearly product designed to make your lips look fuller, and the other end comes with a sheer gloss-like color.
Sheer legs are generally built in very large sizes, and their use is practically confined to marine work.
The rarities that make up the rest of the disk are also sheer delight.
To do otherwise is, to me, sheer folly.
Medium and fair skinned women can pair maroon shadow with a bisque highlighter and soften the look with a sheer plum or rosy gloss , or combine the look with a berry or deep pink lipstick to create a tone on tone mauve palette.
Your best bet here is a sheer, cream blush like Bobbi Brown's Pot Rouge.
The claim that Muhammad did anything at any time without consciousness or under a spell is a sheer fabrication and hence devoid of truth.
But for sheer ferocity and lust of blood, perhaps no creature on earth can equal that uncanny brute, the common garden spider.
These sheer to waist tights have an ultra wide fishnet and are particularly racy.
I cannot seem to get a forward rush from such positions except by sheer fluke.
However the sheer scale of the 33 grids is a massive foreclosure on didactics.
Through sheer frustration Wells began taking his ideas elsewhere.
Never has a week been filled with so much hard work and so much sheer fun.
This musical piggy bank for a boy has a sheer blue and white gingham checked ribbon round his neck.
A view looking along the sheer river gorge toward the falls near the town of George.
It stands out because of its sheer scenic grandeur.
Along with the Himalayas only the Andes offers the scale of landscape and sheer mountain grandeur.
Dont go for the paper round thing - sheer hell on a stick.
He believes only Tory councilors should claim back expenses they incur for attending meetings - sheer hypocrisy.
My skin had gone taut with the sheer iciness of it, and I felt chilled through to the marrow.
The sheer idiocy of these proposals makes further comment superfluous.
The wholly imaginary landscapes of the essayist and painter Cecil Collins had attained their conviction in the 1930s through sheer invention.
That will never happen as we all know as the sheer immensity of the drop is too great.
For a non-professional operator to offer a medical opinion on a radiogram is sheer impertinence " Arthur and Muir (1909) v-vi.
To swing west and south round the fortress of Paris proved a sheer impossibility.
Even the sleevenotes by Rusty Kershaw, his occasional fiddle player and slide guitarist, seem to be there for their sheer incoherence.
For sheer indulgence, Paris is hard to beat.
Instead it was a method of erecting signs that was beyond careless or inconsistent - it was sheer ineptitude.
Yet he makes up for this by sheer ingenuity of script.
I was deeply shocked by the sheer inhumanity, shown by the 'civilised ' world and wanted to know how this could have happened.
The sheer insanity of Edward II's choice of a campsite now became apparent.
It was a time when I rediscovered the sheer joy of music I think.
The closing track is sheer joy, for example.
My emotions went from depression to sheer jubilation within 5 minutes.
Fashioned in sheer striped tulle, the neckline and hem are trimmed in rich embroidered lace with ribbon details.
Julie Cockburn It's not easy to maintain networks after college and my main contacts have been made through sheer legwork.
I can think of no British politician who inspired such sheer loathing as she did.