Sentence examples for so sheer that from inspiring English sources

They're so sheer that the runs don't show.

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.

When leprosy cases appeared, panicked local officials designated the island of Molokai, some fifty miles from Honolulu, a "leprosarium," because it was naturally inaccessible, presenting a sea cliff "so sheer that wild goats tumbled from its face".

Start with a platter of baby mandoo, bite-size half-moons stuffed with beef, pork and leeks and notable for a wrapper so sheer that it is almost transparent.

Many in the lunch crowd seem to gravitate toward fried rice or one of the other generic Asian dishes on the menu, but I would start with a platter of baby mandoo ($6), bite-size half-moons stuffed with beef, pork and leeks and notable for a wrapper so sheer that it is almost transparent.

But next summer, don't do what Cynthia Rowley did and be so sheer that we see your intimate apparel.

College teams usually lack the kind of luxury-box and TV revenues that the pros enjoy, so sheer numbers can be the difference.

A successful discriminatory regime produces economic advantages for the dominant caste members, and also sweeping social advantages, so that sheer possession of white skin will predict that one will enjoy better life prospects than those who lack white skin.

Mineral makeup has gotten a bad rap over the years thanks to brands with not-so-sheer formulas and ingredients that cause breakouts.

I'm about as handy as a three legged goat so the sheer fact that I was able to install the tap in less than an hour is a testament to the design and engineering.

And yet for all the associations with modesty that long imparts, you could not say that this has been a conservative season, not with the orgy of color and prints or, paradoxically, so many clothes that were sheer to the point of invisibility.