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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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
I was sheering off by the lower end of the pond, when, to my horror, I perceived a boy groping on the grass on all fours, apparently digging up the ground with a trowel.
From Tom, Dick and Harry by Talbot Baines Reed
He did not think she could reach the opposite bank, though the Enchantress was sheering that way to help her.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
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
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
