sheer off
Example Sentences
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This town, strung out on an east-west peninsula, clings to a hillside that looks like it might sheer off during batten-the-hatches weather, which in fact is the forecast for about nine months every year.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 14, 2017
It compared itself to the buoy that “warns the inexperienced mariner to sheer off, lest he should be wrecked on a dangerous and unknown coast.”
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2011
By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having the right of way, the We're Here should sheer off, but Disko holds his course.
From Time Magazine Archive
He respected her desire to sheer off anything that might be construed as establishing a new relationship between them, and she appreciated his restraint to the full.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis
She knew that at the first signal of danger to my own peace and position I would sheer off, regretfully but swiftly.
From Captain Macedoine's Daughter by McFee, William
