"sheer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- These islands, whose sheer sides rose straight from the water, held the last inhabitants of the lost continent.
- Nothing grew on either of the steep, sheer sides.
- Six or eight hundred feet up the sheer side of the tower, he suspected his own "weak heart" might show itself.
- The wind could hardly be felt at all in here; the sheer sides of the cliff cut it off.
- Chief Smith looked at the sheer side of the heavy metal opening ahead.
- He looked up at the sheer sides of the shaft rising from the pool.
- Huge balconies hung from the sheer sides of the canyon.
- Then he was past the point of no return, free-falling down the sheer side.
- The tinkers' encampment was at the base of the sheer side.
- The canal lay at the bottom of a deep embankment between sheer sides.
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