We have no meanings for "only sheer" in our records yet.
1 I think only sheer stubbornness was keeping her conscious.
2 It was only sheer luck that we got out.
3 No money, no work, no thought, only sheer enjoyment.
4 There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
5 But scale is not only sheer numbers.
6 But it wasn't death, only sheer exhaustion.
7 Despite its high neckline, only sheer mesh covers her skin, and across it a snarling dragon breathes fire.
8 Bunce had an exaggerated fear of giving trouble, and only sheer necessity had compelled him to request this small service.
9 With the day nearly ended and my energy completely sapped, only sheer determination kept me alert as we headed back uptown.
10 We concluded this shot a miss, as the distance and light were such that only sheer luck could have landed the bullet.
11 Only sheer willpower held me where I was, just inside the doorway.
12 Only sheer brutality could repel the lad's note and request.
13 Only sheer force of will kept him from drawing it.
14 Only sheer strength of will kept him together.
15 Only sheer weariness induced them to leave off.
16 "It was only sheer luck that his loose-cannon behavior paid off."
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