So thin as to transmit light.
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Examples for "sheer"
Examples for "sheer"
1That proved impossible given the sheer scale of the private residential market.
2Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3Today, BGI still claims to lead the world in sheer sequencing capacity.
4The sheer amount of power she must have used was staggering .
5But the sheer number of cases is causing delays in the courts.
1These are open, direct and an example of transparent democracy in practice.
2We will continue to provide information in a transparent manner, said Hafeez.
3More than anything else, African countries need law-abiding, predictable and transparent government.
4This development is a natural consequence of more open and transparent government.
5In addition, there is a clear need for transparent policies and guidelines.
1Through the filmy screen the stalker saw it all, read the meaning.
2Gripping it through the filmy plastic, she let go of the weight.
3He picked up the filmy night-dress and kissed it a dozen times.
4She was swathed in the filmy, half-revelant webs, now of palest blue.
5From the scintillant, filmy mist of women around the piano Lucille emerged.
1Never were such films and gossamer threads used in like entanglement before.
2Gulbis loves to attack, but on this occasion found himself chasing gossamer.
3The main figure leads its troop on gossamer thread of varied journey.
4Except it wasn't a string; it was a gossamer-thin strand of steel.
5Seeds of Tillandsia fly on long threads, like spiders on the gossamer
1Eyes pale blue, and prominent; body nearly diaphanous, with pale red spots.
2By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.
3Thirty-foot diaphanous silk curtains parted in the draught, and they passed through.
4Some have their skeletons coloured with a diaphanous violet marked with white.
5Liberty, in diaphanous draperies, leaps from cloud to cloud, lovely and unapproachable.
1On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous.
2A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3If they were both vaporous, there would be a gradation between them.
4The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
1Besides giving the vague, cobwebby stuff a body it did not deserve.
2Dale stepped closer and played his flashlight into the low, cobwebby space.
3She passed her cobwebby handkerchief across her lips and her hand trembled.
4Miss Asenath offered her own cobwebby handkerchief to dry Arethusa's reddened eyes.
5She groaned and shook her head, which was full of cobwebby mirages.
1There is a tight-fitting, see-through tempered glass lid, which we consider essential.
2Commenting on the see-through nature of the fishnet style, another added: Wow!
3That provides a flexible, durable substrate that's more see-through than window glass.
4It should look slightly see-through and feel soft when you rub it.
5See-through tops with deep necklines also set the tone for the looks.
1But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous, and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
5We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
1When ready to transform, this caterpillar spins a delicate gauze-like cocoon, Fig.
2A thin, gauze-like mist was spread over the distant portions of the landscape.
3There hung also over the land a slight gauze-like mist, which somewhat distorted objects.
4Still the sky remained obscured as before, and a gauze-like mist hung over the ocean.
5Examining it, it proved to be a flimsy gauze-like wrap; it was not old, nor torn.
1The gauzy curtain hung between him and the outside point of view.
2When the gauzy gown was spread before her she examined it carefully.
3The hand felt as if it were covered with some gauzy veiling.
4Strange lights flashed among the gauzy clouds, as if from distant lightning.
5Valean stepped through the open archway, gently pushing the gauzy curtains apart.
6A bee's gauzy wings and yellow legs were disappearing in the distance.
7The gauzy stuff seemed to vibrate-itsstrands to run together like quick-silver.
8She shrank back, drawing the gauzy silk robe closer about her breast.
9A very thin and gauzy partition divides Clara Morse's brains from idiocy.
10She threw a gauzy scarf about her neck, and turned to go.
11See, folded up under them is a pair of delicate gauzy wings.
12Then the breeze drew a gauzy curtain of mist across the ravine.
13No pretty clothes or gauzy garments, or stars, or crowns, or wands!
14Sophie wrapped her fingers around the gauzy curtains and shut her eyes.
15The dawn broke in good earnest, throwing aside its gauzy draperies of mauve.
16The Martini made me dizzy and gave everything a gauzy effect.
Gauzy nas variantes da língua
Estados Unidos da América