sheer
adjective
transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.
had been sheering
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past perfect progressiveof sheer.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The fish had been sheering off when it was hooked, and the deep plunge at the outset was ugly.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
