Adjective : sheer stockings. ,We drilled a hundred feet through sheer rock. ,sheer nonsense. ,a sheer descent of rock. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : ran sheer into the thick of battle. From Dictionary.com.
This gave them sheerness and strength at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Robert Sidney Smith, January 25, 1999. Interview I-0081. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The height and the sheerness of the dark cliff took Justin's breath away. From Wordnik.com. [Cradle and All]
Now there were rubbers called barebacks, electronically tested for sheerness and sensitivity. From Wordnik.com. [Underworld] Reference
I just love the sheerness and the embroidery covering up all the parts that need to be covered. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2002] Reference
No. They were -- I wouldn't say they were sheer, as some of the sheerness that women like today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2001] Reference
Prior to that, if you wanted sheerness, you had to use silk, which was extremely expensive and very delicate. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Robert Sidney Smith, January 25, 1999. Interview I-0081. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
"It's a combination of getting great texture, sheerness and pigment distribution in the product," says Ms. Wells. From Wordnik.com. [A Fashion Editor Primps on the Cheap] Reference
No other canyon in North America combines the remarkable depth, narrowness, and sheerness of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Black Canyon] Reference
The sheerness of the EDT makes the contrasting elements of woody vetiver, powdery orris and cool violet leaf almost startling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Simone: this is one of the things I am most proud of.. the detail, the shading, the ... sheerness that seems to make the shirt appear to float away from the skin. From Wordnik.com. [Fallingwater Cellardoor, Simone Stern and hyasynth Tiramisu - SLOG] Reference
I love the tulip-shaped skirt, and the sheerness of the fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Splendicity] Reference
The stockings are purchased separately and come in different levels of sheerness. From Wordnik.com. [World of SL] Reference
She held the stockings of tan silk before her, testing their fineness, their sheerness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Twin] Reference
And Ravel has some of the squareness, the sheerness and rigidity for which the ultra-modern are striving. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
It has, primarily, some of the nakedness, some of the sheerness of contour, toward which the modern men aspire. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
The circuit really helped us appreciate the vastness of this beauty and enjoy the caves, paintings, gorges and sheerness. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Maybe the deal here is to arrive with one of the many fur pieces and then enjoy the sheerness once inside the heated mansion. From Wordnik.com. [On the Runway] Reference
Something of the same sharpness and sheerness was attained by Berlioz, if not precisely by their means, at least to a degree no less remarkable than theirs. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
It is that Ravel dares, and dares continually; seeks passionately to bring his entire body into play; aspires to plenitude of utterance, to sheerness and rigidity of form. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
Twice she was grasped by revelers who were little more than bashing bulls, and before she could fight them off, her face and neck, through the sheerness of her blouse, were covered with hot, wet, and beery kisses. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
The height and the sheerness of the dark cliff took Justin’s breath away. From Wordnik.com. [Cradle and All]
"Linda," he said, "do you know that the slimness and the sheerness and the audacious foothold and the beauty of that thing remind me of you?. From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
Valvo certainly played into the sheerness trend that’s been all over this round of spring previews, and he paid proper attention to the back, which also matches what’s going on in other collections. From Wordnik.com. [New Orleans Saints Central] Reference
There was sheerness to the nauticial stripes. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Don't forget to check sheerness. From Wordnik.com. [Paramus Post] Reference
I also like the sheerness of gloss. From Wordnik.com. [All Women Stalk] Reference
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