Sentence examples for only a sheer from inspiring English sources

Or the portrait of the bodybuilder Sharon Marvel wearing only a sheer silk top with a large slit straight down the middle and black stiletto heels at the base of hard-as-steel, vein-popping legs?

Mr. Atlas's association with the Belgrade-born artist Marina Abramovic has yielded a number of daring videos and performances, including "Delusional" (1994), during which Ms. Abramovic, wearing only a sheer plastic costume and black stiletto heels inside a glass-enclosed set, lets loose 400 rats that were hidden under a rug.

Confronting enemy fire atop a plateau accessible only by climbing a sheer rock face, he searches for wounded survivors and lowers them, single-handedly, by means of ropes and knots of his own devising, to an Army base below.

Rihanna wore a Stella McCartney jacket with only a pair of sheer tights at December's British Fashion Awards and Rita Ora opted for sheer hold-up stockings.

It was only a moment of sheer impertinence by Stoke's Charlie Adam that took the entire attention away from the star of the show and that was undoubtedly Hazard.

The 24-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis attended the singer's party wearing only sparkly pants underneath a sheer jumpsuit.

Hers is a fame based not only on sheer doggedness, a quality held in high esteem by Koreans, but also on the universal human sympathy for a monumental -- and in her case, cheerful -- loser.

You probably have a sensation in your stomach that you usually only experience when you contemplate a sheer vertical drop, or when you're about to check your bank balance after finishing the Christmas shopping.

The trail is steep and rocky and includes a section nicknamed the "knife edge" that is only a metre wide with sheer cliffs on both sides.

Only a small portion is sheer luck.

It was a relief, but only a small one, given the sheer number of notifications, family by family by family.