The ballerina's tutu was pink and sheer.    From LearnThat.org. 

He fell sheer into the water.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We don't have a lot of what we call sheer in the atmosphere, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2007] Reference

There you can see what we call a sheer marker where that little spin is.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2004] Reference

Now that's what I call sheer perfection : Thanks for the recipe, Nandita!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Savoury multigrain yeast pancakes] Reference

The Messenger Bag Director's Chair is what you call sheer portability, if not innovation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

April laughed in sheer joy at remembering her new friend.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Instead, they were left shaking their heads in sheer disbelief.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

If the American is parochial, it is in sheer wantonness or cowardice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trans-national America] Reference

Her book is not, as one might suppose, an exercise in sheer debunking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping up Appearances] Reference

He exceeds the late Joe McCarthy in sheer wreckless abandon, spitefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Obama Author on 9/11 Conspiracy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

His charming look is in sheer contrast to his plotting, dishonorable ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant Yoda | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

And these things take time and effort, but they pay double in sheer pleasure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Men broke their hearts and backs and wept beside the trail in sheer exhaustion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like Argus of the Ancient Times] Reference

He took a long step towards her, and she stopped where she was in sheer terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire Within] Reference

She dragged deeply on it, while an expression of sheer bliss wreathed her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference

Before you avert your eyes in sheer mortification, here's some helpful reassurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Worst Case Result if You're Lactose Intolerant...] Reference

Whatever the movies lack, however, they certainly make up for it in sheer presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Icon (n): Paul Newman | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference

According to the authors, dataveillance exceeds video surveillance in sheer quantity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Surveillance nation: updates and analysis] Reference

'When I got to (A) I halted in sheer amazement; the enemy's line was over a mile long.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny] Reference

Among testators, the most obvious gender difference manifested itself in sheer numbers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference

The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defense, and as a guarantee of good faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strivings of the Negro People] Reference

The wild rice grew in the swamp, rising sheer from the water on the edges of the channels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 21] Reference

Pavlovs dogs would commit suicide in sheer shame if they were HALF as programmed as you are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment] Reference

Once he laughed aloud in sheer strength of life, and with his clenched fist defied the frost.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Build A Fire] Reference

The story works on multiple fronts, whether it's on the metafictional level or in sheer plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel] Reference

These showed the way, however, and Ida picked them up in sheer pity and carried them with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference

Dawn dressed the Eastern sky in sheer satins of pearl and rose as I strolled beside the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Time to Every Purpose « A Fly in Amber] Reference

For 90 years, until it was surpassed by the .700, the .600 was numero uno in sheer brute power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncategorized Blog Posts] Reference

Sometimes the business man in sheer dispair drops his letters and votes before he can do any work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Machine in Honest Hands] Reference

"The devil!" said Mr. Malcolm MacPherson – not profanely or angrily, but as in sheer bewilderment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference

And the lessons in sheer, imaginative character development and story telling are too good to pass up.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books That Should Be Assigned in School] Reference

Bella's tragic expression vanished, and she laughed outright in sheer genuineness of mirthful recollection.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Makaloa Mat] Reference

The following well-known quotations will show to what lengths even the finest poets will go in sheer despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

Rilla gave over crying in sheer disgust at the futility of tears and went to sleep in Mary Vance's bed in the calm of despair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference

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The blasting disillusion of the Poet outdoes the downfall of the Solitary in sheer megatonnageat least in terms of the logic of argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [_Alastor_, Apostasy, and the Ecology of Criticism] Reference

But it is rather surprising that even as the network's audience is growing in sheer numbers, it is also growing increasingly conservative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Massless Media] Reference