The sheer dead weight was now over his middle body and legs.

It can run up to 40km/hour and kill a human being with its sheer weight.

Even with his greater strength, their sheer weight would stop him.

Once they were gone, the stronger ones would fall through their own sheer weight.

Think of the sheer extra weight he had been carrying around.

In the end, however, there are the sheer weight and length of the event.

In the greater scheme the sheer weight of numbers is against you.

The sheer weight of this Ireland is there in its food.

But the sheer weight of his great fat bottom brought him rolling back into a sitting position.

"The sheer weight of it dragged down the power and phone lines within the first four or five hours."