sheer

The sheer scale of it hits you all at once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Chris Paxton KC, prosecuting, said it was "sheer good fortune" the "defenceless and vulnerable" pupil was not seriously hurt.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

“Just the sheer number of students — I mean, we were incapable of getting through and helping all the students,” Zuberi said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

"My intuition is that it probably is as bad. If you look at the sheer number of hotspots, it's still trending up and up," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.”

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

What kept these lipsticks from looking dated is that they tended to be stains, not thick creams or dry mattes, with a sheerer, lighter texture than one would traditionally associate with such intense hues.

From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2013

So he had a sheerer version tested and sold it in drugstores under the brand names Chez La Femme and Silky Legs.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2011

Once I got the hang of twisting it just a little, then I got sheerer coverage, but it seemed difficult to do it right.

From New York Times ● Jun. 9, 2010

WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore his signature royal blue robe, but as Rowan got closer, he could see it was a sheerer variation than the one he had worn at conclave.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

They were anchored to the north face of Mount Jannu, one of the world’s biggest, sheerest rock walls.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Into the deepest crevices, the darkest caves and the sheerest drops of our beings.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2019

But it would be sheerest hubris to assume those are the only concerns.

From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2017

Helen Frankenthaler’s canvases bare only the sheerest layers of color and paint. Yet with these works the artist straddled two of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2016

Even the sheerest muslin lay hot and heavy on our laps.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

Even when tasked to outfit the girls in monotone uniforms, the costume designer Shirley Kurata adds individuality with textures of sheers, cutouts and pleats.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Sometimes, he adds a pair of sheers behind the main curtains for better light control.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

Vice President Kamala Harris, Ella Emhoff, helped the designer showcase his line of soft sheers coupled next to metallics and liquid-like gloves and leggings.

From Reuters ● Sep. 11, 2022

First, though, dust your shades, sheers and curtains by patting them with your hands.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2021

Let's go ashore again, and wait till he sheers off, for I don't want to see him.

From The Yacht Club or The Young Boat-Builder by Oliver Optic

Several news outlets showed video of a light blue Ferrari 812 Superfast with one of its wheels and side bumpers sheered off.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

Hair sheered from victims to make cloth is considered a sacred human remain which cannot be photographed and is not subjected to conservation efforts.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

A bed complete with its patterned sheet and pillow visible inside a room whose outside wall had been sheered clean away showed the scale of the task ahead.

From Reuters ● Feb. 6, 2023

Mr. Lux said most county election offices received little damage — except in Bay County, home of Panama City, where wind sheered off its roof — and computer servers and voting machines remained intact.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2018

Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by pretending not to understand; but generally he answered all I asked most frankly.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

All of this sheering is a symptom of just how much fast fashion has reshaped our wardrobes.

From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2024

In any case, I would prefer not to deal with such questions, because it will turn out the same as sheering a pig – lots of squealing, little wool.”

From Time ● Jun. 25, 2013

It’s not what most highlanders have in mind: “We want to make the final products,” says Delfina Apaza, rubbing her hands after hours of manual sheering.

From Time ● Dec. 30, 2012

Suddenly, just after 7:20, the van lurched away from the monument, sheering off a flagpole next to the obelisk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oddly enough the other horse seemed also to be sheering away to the left, so that in a few seconds the space between them had widened a good deal.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis