"sheer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

sheer adjetivo

sheer + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 293
sheer number • sheer size • sheer force • sheer cliff • sheer volume • sheer wall • sheer luck • sheer joy • sheer weight • sheer drop • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 63
2. sheer impossibility = czysta niemożliwość sheer impossibility
3. sheer despair = czysta rozpacz sheer despair
  • And the pity of it, the triviality, the sheer hopelessness of it crushed my soul.
  • I realised the sheer hopelessness of my lifestyle; I knew I had to change.
  • But he had died from some inexplicable cause that had left its own mark on him; he reminded her of that woman she had seen earlier, the emaciation, the sheer hopelessness in the features.
  • It wasn't the physical abuse- if that got too bad, the guards would intervene, even for a skinbeef, and by morning she should be in better shape to defend herself-it was the sheer hopelessness of the situation.
  • He recalled his terror and sheer hopelessness as the country he'd lived in for eight years lost control and fell apart.
  • For a moment my brain reeled - - both from sheer hopelessness and from a rapid increase in the omnipresent fishy odour.
  • And only now, as he saw for himself the sheer hopelessness of defense, did he try to flee.
  • For a moment he felt he would explode, and then the sheer hopelessness of it overwhelmed him.
  • Energized by the sheer hopelessness of their plight, the Red Sox played three elimination games with an audacity the Yankees could not match.
  • And Rainie was left hurting, aching, reeling from the sheer hopelessness of it all.
(15) scale, speed, pace, velocity
Kolokacji: 4
(17) horror, disgust
Kolokacji: 2
(21) frustration, exasperation
Kolokacji: 2
(24) curiosity, wonder
Kolokacji: 2
(28) presence, proximity
Kolokacji: 2
(29) necessity, lack
Kolokacji: 2
(30) hell, mischief
Kolokacji: 2
(32) instinct, talent
Kolokacji: 2
(33) agony, pain, pressure
Kolokacji: 3
(34) scope, range, expanse
Kolokacji: 3
(36) rage, ferocity, fury, violence
Kolokacji: 4
(37) lunacy, insanity, indulgence
Kolokacji: 3
(39) perversity, cussedness
Kolokacji: 2
(41) bravado, spectacle
Kolokacji: 2
(42) arrogance, greed, lust
Kolokacji: 3
(43) luxury, wealth, opulence
Kolokacji: 3
(45) disbelief, magic, ignorance
Kolokacji: 3
(50) drama, poetry
Kolokacji: 2
(51) perfection, top, height
Kolokacji: 3
(52) bluff, hypocrisy
Kolokacji: 2
(53) impact, shock
Kolokacji: 2
(55) physicality, nervousness
Kolokacji: 2
(56) fact, fabrication, invention
Kolokacji: 3
(57) depth, dint, decadence
Kolokacji: 3
(58) muscle, stamina, heft, brawn
Kolokacji: 4
(59) chaos, confusion
Kolokacji: 2
(61) fluke, serendipity
Kolokacji: 2
(62) expense, cost
Kolokacji: 2
(63) grit, courage, bravery
Kolokacji: 3

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