We survived by sheer luck.

A calamity was avoided by sheer luck.

He recalled that a collision had been avoided by sheer luck.

...for sheer dumb luck.

The steering wheel moves by itself, the gas, the brakes... it's sheer magic.

It was just sheer terror.

He ran sheer into the wall.

It is a sheer waste of time.

That is sheer nonsense. INTERCOM BUZZlNG Yes?

Creation is an act of sheer will.

Her success was due to sheer hard work.

A sheer bulk surpassing many million earthly libraries.

And so what happened was that I started just becoming an editorial illustrator through, you know, sheer whatever, sheer ignorance.

To my right is sheer shale. It's coming off.

The dark circles around raccoons' eyes... are from sheer fatigue.

She was on the verge of fainting out of sheer terror.

I mean just think of the sheer variety a baby's face,

New York City has long been unusual because of its sheer size.

Now if those 12,000 chairs freaked me out with the sheer number,

Whenever you bring me food and drink sheer disgust turns my stomach.

It was sheer coincidence that Mary and I were on the same train.

Then he uncovered his hand and it was sheer white to the onlookers.

Then he uncovered his hand and it appeared sheer white to the onlookers.

Consider for a moment the sheer number of planetary firsts in recent memory.

The other big dynamic of change is the sheer performance of underperforming asphalt.

The other thing that was so striking was the sheer number of volunteers.

It is connected to reality less than anything else, or if connected at all, it's done mechanically, not by way of ideas, just by a sheer sound, devoid of any associations.

Miss, that dress is splendid, it has a sheer silhouette and is very classy.

I'll go and get it. She ran out of the room, and Mary stood by the fire and twisted her thin little hands together with sheer pleasure.

Do you lustfully approach men instead of women? Nay, you engage in acts of sheer ignorance.

This is for the sheer emotional catharsis of having people defeat the problems that defeated them.

I managed to stick in both the zeppelin and an ocean liner out of sheer enthusiasm.

Shi'ites were allowed to make the pilgrimage to Karbala to observe Ashura, and I was amazed by the sheer number of people and how fervently they practiced their religion.

A snollygoster is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party, platform or principle, and who, when he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnancy.

Olé! to you, nonetheless, just for having the sheer human love and stubbornness to keep showing up.

Now, the sheer numbers of these hand axes shows that they can't have been made for butchering animals.

But I might out of sheer funk and misery. You'd better not, said the Voice, with quiet emphasis.

But they knew that the sheer length of this journey would stretch their supplies of food and water.

What makes ayahuasca fascinating is not the sheer pharmacological potential of this preparation, but the elaboration of it.

How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours?

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy, and joy, after all, is the end of life.

Not just because of the cesspools, but also the sheer number of livestock in the city would shock people.

Now as another Sign place your hand under your arm and it will come out sheer white without harm (or stain).

She's holding back tons of steel with the sheer force of her little personality, in that crone ish voice, saying things like,

That is because God is the Truth while anything they invoke besides God is sheer falsehood. God is the Sublime, the Great One.