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Example sentences for: sheer

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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.
Ajami complains that many Arab writers and pundits prefer simply not to deal with the cruel realities of the Middle East today: the gap between petrodollar wealth in the Gulf and uninspiring economic growth elsewhere; the persistence of autocracy and the failure to develop accountable governments; the debilitating enmity with Israel; the legacy of foreign rule; the influence of Western political ideas and the sheer power of the United States.
It's a moment of sheer absurdity played straight and almost in slow motion, until we realize belatedly that the escalating surrealism has just earned us the only weeping session of the season.
Once inside, the sheer scale of the church is immediate and impressive.
It isn't: It is a matter of sheer accounting--it is, exactly as I said, an "arithmetical necessity."