How to use "sheer" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "sheer" in popular movie and book plots

  • He tries to take control of the Duncan, but by sheer luck, this attempt also fails.  - In Search of the Castaways
  • " When she tells Noony, the sheer extent of Kate's ignorance becomes clear: "You didn't get it on you.  - Kate Vaiden
  • After hiding out on a river barge, Carroon encounters a little girl, leaving her also unharmed through sheer force of willpower.  - The Quatermass Xperiment
  • Andy jumps out the window in sheer panic and begins running away.  - An American Werewolf in Paris
  • Bond reaches the end of the run - a sheer cliff drop.  - Tomorrow Never Dies (video game)
  • Tracy experiences a moment of sheer panic when she peers in the window and sees Tammy revealing the shredded posters.  - Election (1999 film)
  • As one of the masters puts it, the school harbors "a tremendous amount of sheer sexual energy".  - A Good School
  • But a man arrives by chance, and when he sees her, he destroys her, out of sheer boredom.  - The Seagull
  • The sheer size of Mary's bequest will virtually guarantee Ralph's rapid rise in the church.  - The Thorn Birds
  • At the end of the training session, she is worn out from Bismark's "sadistic abuse, pious drivel and sheer double talk".  - Semi-Tough
  • She is told that, despite advanced robotic maintenance, sheer entropy build-up threatens the Disc's further existence.  - Strata (novel)
  • It would seem that his burdens exceeded his sheer ability to survive, much less to triumph.  - Jude the Obscure
  • Impressed at his sheer boldness, Gekko grants Bud an interview.  - Wall Street (1987 film)
  • He discovers that his sheer tenacity and desire to learn make him "pretty well a one-in-a-million bird".  - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Pursued by police, he runs accidentally into a river, which carries him by sheer chance to the house of Rat.  - The Wind in the Willows
  • Bo and Luke always seem to stumble over Hogg's latest scheme, sometimes by curiosity, and often by sheer luck, and put it out of business.  - The Dukes of Hazzard

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