'sheer' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'sheer' with 5 example sentences.
- sheer adjective
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: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers
: not mixed with extraneous elements
: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
: so thin as to transmit light
- sheer verb
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: turn sharply; change direction abruptly
: cause to sheer
- sheer adverb
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: straight up or down without a break
: completely
It is a sheer waste of time.
The justifications for some wars are sheer absurdity.
A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.
She accomplished the task through sheer will.
About half of everything he says is sheer fiction.