What does sheerly mean?
Sheerly means Absolutely; purely; quite..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adverb
Absolutely; purely; quite..
It had amused the blind man to accept the invitation to give the annual Stalworthy lecture, as it frequently did amuse him to do unexpected things—sheerly to experience—but more than once before he was through the unentertaining business he cursed the moment of good-natured assent.
On a sheerly technical plane, the projections used for the backgrounds were very effective, particularly in the third act, where a sunset faded most convincingly.
The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along, the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.
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Sheerly means Absolutely; purely; quite..
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It had amused the blind man to accept the invitation to give the annual Stalworthy lecture, as it frequently did amuse him to do unexpected things—sheerly to experience—but more than once before he was through the unentertaining business he cursed the moment of good-natured assent.
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