sheer
adjective
transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.
sheerly
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a word derived from
sheer.
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
Still, one can hardly imagine the result being better, or more sheerly enjoyable, than the seven long conversations conducted by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro in “Traveler of Worlds.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2016
It jutted up sheerly, and Jerry knew that he had no time to scale it.
From The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger by Graydon, William Murray
