Crossword-Solution: SHEERLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sheerly | adv. | At once; absolutely. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “SHEERLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| How a cliff's wall rises | 1 answer |
| How a steep slope rises | 1 answer |
| In a perpendicular way | 1 answer |
| With alarming steepness | 1 answer |
| Without qualification | 6 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHEERLY (5)
The pit dropped sheerly from my feet, but a little way along the rubbish afforded a practicable slope to the summit of the ruins.
For the most part the glass was bedewed, and Graham saw only hazy suggestions of the forms below, but near the pitch of the transparent roof the glass was clear, and he found himself looking sheerly down upon it all.
Withal, she was sheerly feminine, tender and soft and clinging, with the smouldering passion of the mate and the motherliness of the woman.
George ate when he had eaten more than he needed; he ate long after every one understood why he was so vast; he ate on and on sheerly as a flourish--as a spectacle.
They have been brought hither for thee by thy people." Yes, mentally I see long-bearded, grey-headed supermen, beings possessed of the rounded eyes of happy children, descending from the hills, and decking the earth, and sowing it with sheerly kaleidoscopic treasures, and coating the tops of the mountains with massive layers of silver, and the lower edges with a living web of trees.
Quotes with SHEERLY (1)
The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, NYT, Onion.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1992–2012).