Sentence examples for sheer strokes from inspiring English sources

Meeting Greene, she said in a recent interview, was one of those "sheer strokes of destiny," chance encounters that have defined her life.

"It was a sheer stroke of luck," says Klekociuk.

But Charles Scribner III, who spent part of the 70s correcting the Scribner edition of the novel, considers it "a sheer stroke of brilliance".

While the discovery was a stroke of sheer luck, it is Subramanian's approach to experimentation that ensured the accident did not go unnoticed.

"She'll love it," said the vaguely European-looking saleswoman, stroking the sheer negligee hanging seductively from the mannequin.

It was a stroke of sheer genius, one that few professionals would concede was possible, let alone attempt to execute.

It was only by a stroke of sheer luck that they dropped their keys in the dark, lit some foam rubber on fire and smoked themselves out.

In a stroke of sheer genius, we first see her not as an old lady, but as a feisty shock-haired pre-teen devotee of the great explorer Charles Muntz, with Carl as her tongue-tied admirer.

But if by some stroke of sheer dumb luck your video does go viral, how do you capitalise on that and cash in?

But if by some stroke of sheer dumb luck your video does go viral, how do you capitalize on that and cash in?

Not only had she been made to run all afternoon, but the sheer weight of Serena's muscular strokes had sapped her strength.