sheer
adjective
transparently thin; diaphanous, as some fabrics.
was sheering
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past progressiveof sheer.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Gradually the smoke cleared away, and then I saw that our captain had put down the helm and our vessel was sheering off to leeward under full sail.
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The boys had not yet made their offing, they were still on the full stretch going the one way, when I had already gone about ship and was sheering off the other.
From Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson
And in admitting that she cared to have the conversation proceed upon this footing, she realised that she was sheering towards unequivocal coquetry.
From The Pit by Frank Norris
He was sheering gradually out into the lake, and, although the boat was travelling somewhat faster than its pursuers, James saw that its course would carry it across their bows at a dangerously close distance.
From With Wolfe in Canada The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The night air was very chilly and full of brine; a little boat towing by a long painter was sheering about in the phosphorescent wake of the ship.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
