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

"That song comes sheerly from wanting to throw something," Levine said in a 2002 interview with MTV.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2021

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

From The Verge • Jul. 14, 2020

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

In the centre the companion ladder plunged down sheerly like an open pit.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis