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Meanings of sheer delight in English

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Usage of sheer delight in English
1
Far from being unpleasant to be with him, it was sheer delight.
The Irish Times
2
The exclamation broke from the man out of sheer delight and happiness.
The Man in the Twilight
3
And as she talked the man laughed with sheer delight and amusement.
Destiny
4
And the taste of the fruit that followed was a sheer delight.
The outsiders
5
It was a ludicrous extravaganza, architecture for the sheer delight of it.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
6
On the sixth day, in sheer delight, he rolled in it.
Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the ...
7
Whereupon Rolla leaped to her feet and danced in sheer delight.
The Emancipatrix
8
She forestalled every assertion I made, herself bubbling and blushing in sheer delight.
54-40 or Fight
9
Bastian took a third fruit, and that was a sheer delight.
The Neverending Story
10
The character of his laughter was sheer delight, and Tom found it infectious.
Breathless
11
He had choked on the shaving foam out of sheer delight.
Melnitz
12
Ruiz Rios's impassive face masked all emotion; Kendric's displayed frankly his sheer delight.
Daughter of the Sun / A Tale of Adventure
13
She threw back her head and trembled with the sheer delight of life.
The irish devil
14
Her heart gave a throb of sheer delight at the beauty of the thing.
The Way of an Eagle
15
A flush of sheer delight in life flooded her cheeks.
Heralds of Empire / Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieu...
16
The reward for all my pains, however, lay in the sheer delight of creating.
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination
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Sheer delight through the time
Sheer delight across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common