It was usually a common dugout, hollowed from a cottonwood or other light timber, with such an angular narrow prow that it could take the sheerest dip and mount the steepest wave-crest where a rounder boat would fill and swamp.
To say that silver fox is costly solely because it is rare is sheerest nonsense.
The comparison of the buffalo herds to the northland caribou has become almost commonplace; but it is the sheerest nonsense.
It was only the sheerest good fortune which gave her the opportunity of utilizing it so soon.
A girl may by the sheerest accident, step from the street-car a block ahead of her destination,--an irritating incident.
Bowls and platters of dazzlingly white metal, narrow-waisted goblets of sheerest crystal; all were hexagonal, beautifully and intricately carved or etched in apparently conventional marine designs.
They are not like the American and French girls, who will only wear the sheerestkind of light material.
It was made of the sheerest handkerchief linen and one thread only had been pulled for the hemstitching.
Another point is that the sheerest material, such as chiffon, can be used in them, while if a heavy burlap or crash is embroidered over them a little of the winding strips can be removed for the time being.
Twice he had seen the child stolen, and the first occasion had not been without its drama, but the Governor had made of the second the sheerest farce.
Archie, his back to the wall, saw the rogue laughing into his partner's face as lightheartedly as though he had not, within a few minutes, imperiled his freedom in an act of sheerest folly.
My daughter Hezekiah is the frankest person alive, and she told me of her meetings with you and that you had been to the Asolando,--where she spent a day in the sheerest spirit of mischief.
After a terrible time of darkness and pain, the flower found itself in a web of sheerest linen.
When she came to the shirtwaist patterns, exquisitely embroidered upon sheerest handkerchief linen, she shamelessly multiplied the price by four and pinned the new tag on.
My dear, I'm water-logged, yet the mere absence of that frightful agony makes my present state sheerest bliss.
They expected nothing else; an occasional fist-sized chunk of bread was sheerest luxury.
If the simple life is only a state of mind I can understand how easy it is to follow it to sheerest happiness.
Sometimes she passed hours on her knees, tearless, wordless; sometimes sheerest fear set her creeping to the door to peer out, dreading lest his closed door concealed a tragedy.
The parable of the Rich Fool was related by our Lord to teach that riches neither form the real content nor assure the continuance of life, so that it is the sheerest folly to seek for gold while forgetting God.
It is the sheerest folly to forget that riches neither form the real content nor assure the continuance of life; it is madness to heap up goods while neglecting God.
It was the sheerest and most gratuitous profligacy.
To charge all the destructive work they do on the innocent and harmless molecules, which are two steps removed from the actual force expended, is drawing conclusions from the sheerest hypothetical data.
His flask experiments, therefore, prove nothing; and all this talk about de novo production is the sheerest scientific delusion.
She tried to sew, too, cutting up one of the sheerest and prettiest of her nightgowns into a litter of small garments, but almost immediately her hands would fall idle and the great waves of terror begin to surge.
Lilly Penny, whose trousseau had included twelve of the sheerest batiste ones, in a coarse, unbleached nightdress not her own and the least gentle to her flesh she had ever known.
Fountains that tossed up coloratura bubbles ofsheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.
It seemed the sheerest madness on Captain Dove's part to have disclosed to their ringleader the secret of the magazine, and no one could tell at what moment they might now assume the offensive.
Bowls and platters of a dazzlingly white metal, narrow-waisted goblets of sheerest crystal; all were hexagonal, beautifully and intricately carved or etched in apparently conventional marine designs.
You would look upon it as sheerest folly, I tell you, and laugh at me for a credulous fool.
It would be sheerest nonsense in your eyes, I know.
The ends of the bertha hung loosely and under it she had tied an apron of sheerest linen, edged with narrow Duchesse lace.
Gerrit, however, had made a point of repressing any response to that aspect of their intercourse--the sheerest necessity for the preservation of his disdain.
Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?
In sheerest despair I laughed till I cried, and the sight of Gertrud watching me silently from the middle of the deserted road only made me less able to leave off.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheerest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
