Example sentences for: sheer

How can you use “sheer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The sheer variety and beauty are breathtaking.

  • In his pleasure in the sheer variousness of paradises found and lost, Walcott glories in what the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins called "dappled things."

  • This 300-km (180-mile) trail offers one of the country’s most spectacular drives, with dramatic juxtapositions of dense pine forest, sheer cliffs, and the ocean.

  • I especially loved the dancers on the sheer walls of the famed Opera House.

  • The scenic Yosemite Valley is a perfect example of a glacier-carved canyon, with its sheer granite walls 3,200ft (975m) high plunging to a flat floor of woods and wild-flower meadows, enclosing the waters of the Merced River.


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