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Example sentences for: sheer

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While it is probably true, as Susan Sontag has argued, that Brady's images of the horrors of the battlefields "did not make people any less keen to go on with the Civil War," he did convey to his audience the sheer human cost of the war.
Versailles was truly the shining star of Europe by its architectural splendor, and most of all by the sheer hypnotic power of Louis XIV’s cult of self-glorification.
Because centered dots are used to mark syllable breaks--a useful practice abandoned in an access of sheer stupidity by the editors of the Collins , this does not present problems except in monosyllabic words, like lilt, till , and ill.
You can grade the hikes according to your fitness and experience — if in doubt, seek advice at the Visitor Center — but try at least one walk, in sturdy shoes, for the sheer exhilaration of making it to the end.
Sheer cliffs plunge dramatically to the Mediterranean, and the cape juts out to sea.