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"Shear" in a Sentence (21 examples)
They usually shear sheep in spring.
If the torque is too high, the shaft might break. That's why we are using a shear splint as a torque limiter.
I cannot shear my sheep now. It's still cold.
He knows how to shear a sheep.
Their job is to shear the sheep.
Where did you shear them?
A highly skilled shearer can shear a sheep in two to three minutes depending on the size and condition of the sheep.
A top-class shearer can shear up to 150 sheep in one day.
And it was told Thamar that her father-in-law was come up to Thamnas to shear his sheep.
I want to learn how to shear a sheep.
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shear the llamas
shear the afro off someone's head
So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
the golden tresses […] were shorn away
The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.
Soon as the bending Scythe, And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain, Array'd in all the Equipage of Death, Forth the stern Sportsman stalks
short of their wool, and naked from the shear
After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
The first effect of a wind shear was detected at 34 to 42 seconds into the takeoff, at a speed of about 115 KIAS with the airplane about 3,800 feet down the runway. An average shear rate of about 2.5 knots per second resulted in an interruption in acceleration at this point with the airspeed remaining at 115 to 120 KIAS for 7 to 10 seconds.
We hit a nasty shear on approach and had to go around.
Real people in a picture that was used by a catfish to create a fake identity could have a claim because their likeness was used without permission, Shear said.
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