Sentence examples for to be sheer from inspiring English sources

There is a surface there, but it needs to be sheer.

Squatting for seven innings on a stifling July afternoon does not have to be sheer torture.

A girl in front angles her neck to get a better look, her eyes wide; a blond boy beams with what looks to be sheer joy.

If you don't care to constantly repeat yourself or re-litigate the point, then the job has got to be sheer drudgery.

In a company that had not gone through the process of clarifying its strategy, the decision would seem to be sheer recklessness.

(Sometimes they even appear despite the existence of formal paths, out of what seems to be sheer mulishness or, perhaps, cowishness).

It would be sheer illusion to pretend that this idealised vision is about to wean Israel away from Zionism.

The fellows must be sheer fools to land themselves in war with England".

TIMOTHY AND ELIZABETH CAMPBELL'S last trip to Home Depot was sheer drudgery.

One of the forces behind this phonic revolution seems to have been sheer thespian ambition.

One of the keys, according to Yun, was sheer speed.