1. The date went sheer out of my head.

2. It was sheer luck that we met like that.

3. The bridge is noteworthy for its sheer size.

4. They have gained respect through sheer dogged determination.

5. It is sheer madness to drive so fast.

6. The ground dropped away sheer at our feet.

7. By sheer luck nobody was hurt in the explosion.

8. He achieved his aim by sheer strength of will.

9. Our army was beaten by sheer weight of numbers.

10. The sheer amount of data makes the mind boggle.

11. We were amazed by the sheer abundance of food.

12. It was sheer luxury to step into a hot bath.

13. It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.

14. The area is under threat from the sheer number of tourists using it.

15. I was amazed by the sheer bulk of the creature.

16. The raft came close to the rocks and then sheered away.

17. She was laughing from the sheer exuberance of the performance.

18. It was not until morning that the sheer scale of the damage could be seen .

19. There's one rule for her and another rule for everyone else and it's sheer hypocrisy.

20. He had given up attending lectures out of sheer boredom.

21. Rimmed by a waist-high balustrade,(sentence dictionary) the garden sheers down some twenty feet.

22. As he leans over, the boat sheers again into the stream, the stem-post breaks away and she is loose.

23. A new range of Swiss sheers and prints with louvred blinds to match.

24. Owen Sheers, the writer, and Stephen Rayne, the director, derived their narrative from interviews with the soldiers.

25. Layering sheers is anther way to help conceal what is underneath.

26. It sheers back from her head in a kind of bouffant helmet and for a moment I wonder if it's all one piece with her Dior glasses.

27. The wall is, also here, marked by sheers, commonly talcose, and the beds of phyllite are cut and dragged by the movements.

28. "Those that have been wounded in conflict have an absolute right to have their voices heard," Mr Sheers said.