Sentence examples for sheer hillside from inspiring English sources

Behind the Teatro Juárez, a sheer hillside rises to a massive pink stone statue of a man holding a torch.

And those chocolate dots inching across the sheer hillside are their sheep, whose coats have evolved a yeti-like shagginess over the centuries.

Our rides took us much higher, along narrow trails chiseled from sheer hillsides.

Waist-high coffee plants with vinelike branches grew in no discernible pattern; they covered a hillside so sheer that pickers sometimes have to be lowered on ropes.

With trees and greenery lining the top and coming down the sides a little, the rock juts up from the face of the hillside, too sheer for houses to be carved onto it, with many different colorings beautifying it.

In 1996 and 1997, a team led by structural biologist Steve Weiner of the Weizmann Institute for Science in Rehovot, Israel, revisited the site, a sheer cliff cut into a hillside.

After the monsoon rains, in sheer relief, it explodes into flower, turning whole hillsides pink.

There was a tussocky grassy hillside, falling steeply away to a rocky lip, then a sheer drop into the stream.

Where sheer bluffs drop to the turbulent sea and German bunkers still pepper haunted green hillsides.

People who live up steep hills are usually immune from the UK's main types of flooding – rivers overflowing on to valley land or drains backing up – but the sheer force of Monday's torrential outburst swept an estimated 500 tonnes, and more, of debris past Hebden's hillside doors.

The only surprise that struck a discordant note was the sheer amount of concrete that it would eventually take to secure the structural integrity of the stairs of my hillside house.