- a bluff headland.
-  a downright lie.
-  a hat with a diaphanous veil.
-  a rank outsider.
-  a sheer descent of rock.
-  absolute freedom.
-  an absolute dimwit.
-  an out-and-out lie.
-  filmy wings of a moth.
-  gauzy clouds of dandelion down.
-  gossamer cobwebs.
-  got the job through sheer persistence.
-  he fell sheer into the water.
-  many right-down vices.
-  not an unmixed blessing.
-  out-and-out mayhem.
-  plain water.
-  She sheered her car around the obstacle.
-  sheer silk stockings.
-  sheer stupidity.
-  sheer wine.
-  The car cut to the left at the intersection.
-  The motorbike veered to the right.
-  transparent chiffon.
-  vaporous silks.
-  where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise.