sheer off
Example Sentences
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This town, strung out on an east-west peninsula, clings to a hillside that looks like it might sheer off during batten-the-hatches weather, which in fact is the forecast for about nine months every year.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2017
It compared itself to the buoy that “warns the inexperienced mariner to sheer off, lest he should be wrecked on a dangerous and unknown coast.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2011
By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having the right of way, the We're Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were German light cruisers, which, having had a taste of the salvoes of the leading ships of the First Cruiser Squadron, had thought it prudent to sheer off.
From With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
I did get you—Say, boys, you sheer off a bit while this here's goin' on.
From The Cinder Pond by Carroll Watson Rankin
