- a bluff headland.
- a downright lie.
- a hat with a diaphanous veil.
- a rank outsider.
- a sheer descent of rock.
- absolute freedom.
- an absolute dimwit.
- an out-and-out lie.
- filmy wings of a moth.
- gauzy clouds of dandelion down.
- gossamer cobwebs.
- got the job through sheer persistence.
- he fell sheer into the water.
- many right-down vices.
- not an unmixed blessing.
- out-and-out mayhem.
- plain water.
- She sheered her car around the obstacle.
- sheer silk stockings.
- sheer stupidity.
- sheer wine.
- The car cut to the left at the intersection.
- The motorbike veered to the right.
- transparent chiffon.
- vaporous silks.
- where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise.