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sheer strength

collocation in English

meanings of sheerand strength


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sheer
adjective
uk /ʃɪər/ us /ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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strength
noun
uk /streŋθ/ us /streŋθ/
the ability to do things that need a lot of physical or ...
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Examples of sheer strength


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Even a grandmother who still believed in severity was hardly likely to have the sheerstrength to be harsh.
Resin mixes have been changed, and tests have shown higher sheerstrength.
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I was convinced otherwise simply by the sheerstrength of the evidence.
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It was decided on because of the sheerstrength of opinion in the country against the proposed pit closures.
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The best achievement of all is that people should master their own difficulties with their own unaided resources by sheerstrength of character.
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The sheerstrength of the whale pulled many of the fishermen out to sea.
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The economy needed to slow down, but such was the sheerstrength and vitality of the expansion that it has taken some time to rein back the momentum.
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There was simply a very genuine belief that women were not physically equipped to deal with situations in which there was a demand for sheerstrength.
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However, having done that, one must contrast the sheerstrength of our partners' commitment to the project with the lamentable indecisiveness with which our own political debate has been conducted.
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He used both to display his toughness, and also did not hesitate to use sheerstrength to get his point across.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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