sheer strength

collocation in English

meaningsofsheerandstrength

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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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(Definition ofsheerandstrengthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even a grandmother who still believed in severity was hardly likely to have thesheerstrengthto be harsh.
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Resin mixes have been changed, and tests have shown highersheerstrength.
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I was convinced otherwise simply by thesheerstrengthof the evidence.
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It was decided on because of thesheerstrengthof 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 bysheerstrengthof character.
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Thesheerstrengthof the whale pulled many of the fishermen out to sea.
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The economy needed to slow down, but such was thesheerstrengthand 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 forsheerstrength.
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However, having done that, one must contrast thesheerstrengthof 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 usesheerstrengthto get his point across.
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