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Meanings of sheared in английском

Having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers.

Sheared.

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Usage of sheared in английском
1
Sheep are washed and sheared some time in the month of June.
McGuffey's Second Eclectic Reader
2
He notched a link and sheared it and pushed the doors open.
Hemlock Grove
3
The rush of water against it now sheared up in a spray.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
4
Ahead she could see only sheared pink granite in walls and roof.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
5
The right sleeve of her gown was sheared away below the cuff.
Thief of lives
6
On every side, in numbered pens, sheep were waiting to be sheared.
The Story of Wool
7
Was it an earthquake or had it just sheared off by itself?
The Land of Painted Caves
8
All these plants may be sheared or cut back to induce stockiness.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) / A Practical Guide to the ...
9
The top of the cliff looked as if it had sheared off.
Anvil Gate
10
An axe sheared clean through her shoulder blade, and Molly finally screamed.
From hell with love
11
Covert-A twill-wovencloth sometimes with full face, sometimes sheared to imitate whipcord.
Textiles and Clothing
12
Some force had twisted it away, leaving sheared beam and broken treads.
Ringworld
13
The force of the fall had almost sheared the spine's smooth column.
Dreamsnake
14
Her wedding band had sheared in half and fallen to the bed.
Hell House
15
When the truck detonated, it sheared off the U.S. embassy's rear façade.
Ghost wars
16
She finally wrote the State Agricultural College for advice about getting it sheared.
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