Sheer
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Because he looks so awful, no one wants to hire him and out of
sheer
desperation, he resorts to a life of crime in order to earn the money needed to buy a mask to hide his ugliness.
More example sentences with word sheer
Darfur may have slipped from the news headlines, but the killing and displacement there continues as well, and the
sheer
human misery that it creates is very hard to fathom.
Now, the
sheer
numbers of these hand axes shows that they can't have been made for butchering animals.
It was just
sheer
terror.
And this is because the scientific worldview is so much more exciting, more poetic, more filled with
sheer
wonder than anything in the poverty-stricken arsenals of the religious imagination.
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