Sentence examples for sheer down from inspiring English sources

'Six times 30 days of sun sheer down on our heads,' Don Fabrizio complains to a visitor.

Its vantage points are spectacular: cliffs fringed with green pines sheer down to the roiling gray Pacific.

At least I think it was sex, though it may have been an aggressive game of charades: "She moved over," Cody writes, "and I grabbed her legs and threw her over me, over a precipice, she fell like Fay Wray falling out of the pterodactyl's winged fingers down the sheer cliff, plunging down and resurfacing with the glimpse of a bare breast..

Like oil, it sheers down foundation to create a natural finish but gives a hint of illumination.

It was brilliant, though, amazing; this sheer drop, 1,000ft down, just to your left.

The road followed the sweep of the coast with sheer cliffs dropping down to transparent blue water.

The next morning we saw the grape vines and the fruit trees clinging to the sheer mountainside, spilling down to the meandering Douro itself.

The designer added an unusual wainscot of triple-pleated sheer voile tacked down with a strip of chrome, his version of a traditional chair rail.

But sheer mimicry breaks down when one gives a machine new tasks, and, as I explained a few weeks ago, Big Data approaches tend to excel at finding correlations without necessarily being able to induce the rules of the game.

This is the artist who continues to fiddle while America burns, not out of negligence but out of sheer need: Bring down my fiddle Tune up my strings I'm gonna break it wide open Like the early Roman kings Now they asked me to read a poem At the sorority sisters' home I got knocked down and my head was swimmin' I wound up with the Dean of Women Yippee!

We sheer away down a broad grassy footpath.