Example sentences for: sheer

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

  • 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.

  • Let's not dwell on the sheer dishonesty of insinuating that I, or any serious writers on evolutionary psychology, believe infidelity or genocide or anything else is rendered inevitable genetically.

  • Sheer cliffs plunge dramatically to the Mediterranean, and the cape juts out to sea.

  • Yosemite Valley is one of the best and most famous rock climbing centers in the world; climbers flock from all over the country to take up the challenge of its sheer granite walls.

  • Originally a 16th-century cavalry barracks, the Archaeological Museum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale) is in no way a dry bundle of old bones and stones, but sheer pleasure for anyone even remotely interested in southern Italy’s Greek, Etruscan, and Roman past.


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