- 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.