So thin as to transmit light.
Синонимы
Examples for "sheer "
Examples for "sheer "
1 That proved impossible given the sheer scale of the private residential market.
2 Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
3 Today, BGI still claims to lead the world in sheer sequencing capacity.
4 The sheer amount of power she must have used was staggering .
5 But the sheer number of cases is causing delays in the courts.
1 These are open, direct and an example of transparent democracy in practice.
2 We will continue to provide information in a transparent manner, said Hafeez.
3 More than anything else, African countries need law-abiding, predictable and transparent government.
4 This development is a natural consequence of more open and transparent government.
5 In addition, there is a clear need for transparent policies and guidelines.
1 Through the filmy screen the stalker saw it all, read the meaning.
2 Gripping it through the filmy plastic, she let go of the weight.
3 He picked up the filmy night-dress and kissed it a dozen times.
4 She was swathed in the filmy , half-revelant webs, now of palest blue.
5 From the scintillant, filmy mist of women around the piano Lucille emerged.
1 Never were such films and gossamer threads used in like entanglement before.
2 Gulbis loves to attack, but on this occasion found himself chasing gossamer .
3 The main figure leads its troop on gossamer thread of varied journey.
4 Except it wasn't a string; it was a gossamer - thin strand of steel.
5 Seeds of Tillandsia fly on long threads, like spiders on the gossamer
1 The gauzy curtain hung between him and the outside point of view.
2 When the gauzy gown was spread before her she examined it carefully.
3 The hand felt as if it were covered with some gauzy veiling.
4 Strange lights flashed among the gauzy clouds, as if from distant lightning.
5 Valean stepped through the open archway, gently pushing the gauzy curtains apart.
1 On the side above the woods, the sky was dark and vaporous .
2 A soft whispering noise floated in vaporous cloudlets out of the box.
3 If they were both vaporous , there would be a gradation between them.
4 The 'Clouds' drip with mist, and are dim with aërial vaporous effects.
5 The Magician's aura immediately snapped alight, sizzling yellow and vaporous around him.
1 Besides giving the vague, cobwebby stuff a body it did not deserve.
2 Dale stepped closer and played his flashlight into the low, cobwebby space.
3 She passed her cobwebby handkerchief across her lips and her hand trembled.
4 Miss Asenath offered her own cobwebby handkerchief to dry Arethusa's reddened eyes.
5 She groaned and shook her head, which was full of cobwebby mirages.
1 There is a tight-fitting, see - through tempered glass lid, which we consider essential.
2 Commenting on the see - through nature of the fishnet style, another added: Wow!
3 That provides a flexible, durable substrate that's more see - through than window glass.
4 It should look slightly see - through and feel soft when you rub it.
5 See - through tops with deep necklines also set the tone for the looks.
1 But his arguments were vapourous enough and made little impression on Barneveld.
2 Her geometry had been fluid, or rather, vapourous , and had floated away, unthought of and unregretted.
3 Suddenly the horizon was enveloped in a vapourous fog, and seemed to contract until it was close around us.
4 I had reached, as it were, a higher level of that mountainous and vapourous visions, the heaven of a higher levity.
5 We were in July now, and misty, vapourous clouds moved slowly over the blue sky, seeming to intensify the heat of the unclouded intervals.
1 When ready to transform, this caterpillar spins a delicate gauze - like cocoon, Fig.
2 A thin, gauze - like mist was spread over the distant portions of the landscape.
3 There hung also over the land a slight gauze - like mist, which somewhat distorted objects.
4 Still the sky remained obscured as before, and a gauze - like mist hung over the ocean.
5 Examining it, it proved to be a flimsy gauze - like wrap; it was not old, nor torn.
1 Eyes pale blue, and prominent; body nearly diaphanous , with pale red spots.
2 By rhythmic reversion, sextillion worlds passed into diaphanous luster; fire became firmament.
3 Thirty-foot diaphanous silk curtains parted in the draught, and they passed through.
4 Some have their skeletons coloured with a diaphanous violet marked with white.
5 Liberty, in diaphanous draperies, leaps from cloud to cloud, lovely and unapproachable.
6 She is so slender, so light, so filmy, she must be diaphanous .
7 There was nothing about her diaphanous , nothing undecided, nothing floating, no mist.
8 The delicacy of the features was extreme; the forehead seemed diaphanous .
9 Nor is it as diaphanous as you might hope from inside.
10 Our bodies are light; the texture, apparently firm and resisting, is somehow diaphanous .
11 Berenice was so beautiful in a storm of diaphanous clinging garments.
12 Near him, in the diaphanous white of a guardian angel, was a nurse.
13 Then I imagine a diaphanous veil falling across the rest of my presentation.
14 The leaves were just enough developed to make a diaphanous lacework of green.
15 The kind of bench which Alma-Tadema usually fills with diaphanous maidens.
16 Her sister was there, across the room, dressed in an identical diaphanous shift.
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