Sample sentences for SHEER - verbalworkout.com

4 meanings

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1 —as in:
a sheer blouse

Definition

typically of fabric: very thin and delicate — often transparent

In the kitchen, I want sheer curtains that I can see through.

sheer = so thin and delicate as to be transparent

Other Uses (with this meaning)

She likes sheer silk stockings.

sheer = so thin and delicate as to be transparent

At work, the blouse is too sheer to wear without a coat.

sheer = thin and delicate

He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

sheer = thin

Whatever bravery or skill I had ever shown were gifts of God—sheer loans from Him of the talent needed to do a job.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place
Beside him stands a Tribal girl clad in sheer, rose-colored robes, their hems embroidered with tiny round mirrors.
Sabaa Tahir -- An Ember in the Ashes
I grab at the sheer blue curtain panels and yank them until the rod snaps and the curtains fall around me.
Colleen Hoover -- Hopeless

sheer = typically of fabric: very thin and delicate — often transparent

It's made of super-sheer plastic, and as I wrap it around my body, securing it at the waist with a knot, I'm fully aware that you can still see pretty much everything including the outline of my underwear—through its fabric.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

sheer = thin and transparent

The sheer fabric softly glows.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

sheer = thin and delicate

Eerie nine-hundred-year-old petroglyphs and pictographs decorate its sheer walls.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

sheer = thin and delicate

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2 —as in:
sheer fun

Definition

complete or pure — without restriction, qualification, or other elements (used for emphasis)

She got the job through sheer persistence.

sheer = pure (completely by)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

It was a demonstration of sheer stupidity.

sheer = complete

For a while sheer anger mastered me.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula

sheer = complete and without restriction

We can do nothing else, it is a sheer necessity.
Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

sheer = complete

Everyone was rather amazed at the sheer size of the gift.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

sheer = total (used for emphasis)

Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down.
George Orwell -- 1984

sheer = complete (used for emphasis)

I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

sheer = complete

To escape the wolf pack which all the other players became he created reverses and deceptions and acts of sheer mass hypnotism which were so extraordinary that they surprised even him; after some of these plays I would notice him chuckling quietly to himself, in a kind of happy disbelief.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

sheer = complete or utter

And it was sheer bad luck that he sat down on the pile of thistles.
C.S. Lewis -- The Magician's Nephew

sheer = pure or complete

The work at Siemens, however, was sheer misery.
Corrie ten Boom -- The Hiding Place

sheer = complete

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3 —as in:
a sheer cliff

Definition

so steep it is almost vertical

Be careful on that road. There is a sheer drop-off on the right.