Sentence examples for like a sheer from inspiring English sources

There is the 76-storey skyscraper in Manhattan – simply branded "New York by Gehry" – which hangs like a sheer silk scarf, rippling in the wind.

Over, around and through everything the ornamental patterns fall like a sheer, open-weave net, breaking up solidity, contradicting gravity, binding everything together.

It was the place where I learned to ski when I was 12 years old, coaxed by an outdoorsy cousin onto a trail that looked, to my novice eyes, like a sheer drop of ice and snow.

They encounter a street that rises in front of them like a sheer rockface and, bracing a foot against it first, like Fred Astaire dancing around the walls in Royal Wedding, they proceed to walk straight upwards.

Rising like a sheer rock face from the steeply sloping street, the west front of the school is a tour-de-force, an emotional and spellbinding experience.

Pale lips were rampant on the runway, and nearly every makeup line is offering softer colors that are more like a sheer wash than a heavy pigment.

"The last three or four years that I have been in the Senate, it's been like climbing a sheer rock wall," she said.

"Instead of stuffing a bomb in a cave, which is what the H.I.V. protease inhibitor does, it's like climbing a sheer rock face," said Dr. Boger of Vertex, which developed Agenerase, one of the H.I.V. protease inhibitors on the market.

"What really counts in getting through a tough period like this is a sheer level of energy and willpower," he observed.

In expensive wigs, each hair is then painstakingly hand-tied to a sheer, tulle-like cap and can be parted in any direction.

FERNICOLA OSTERIA clings to the upper edge of Williamsburg like a climber to a sheer sheet of granite.