Example Sentences

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“We don’t want to withhold images that would help people to understand what has happened in scenarios like these, but we also don’t publish images sheerly as provocation.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2022

The charts could make shows more popular sheerly by exposing listeners to podcasts they haven’t heard.

From The Verge • Jul. 14, 2020

We think of these as sheerly family issues, but they’re not sheerly family issues.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2018

Many people felt that 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" were better movies — more adventurous, more stylish, more sheerly entertaining — than "In the Heat of the Night."

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2016

One end of the lake had once been a falls, for here it ended, dropping down as sheerly as a precipice for hundreds of feet.

From The Sphere of Sleep by Geier, Chester S.