How To Use Shaven In A Sentence

He wanders around Manhattan, unshaven, unbathed, and smoking and cussing a lot.
He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.
Nevertheless, he was clean-shaven, his hair was cut and his ears were clean. Stephanie Gertler: Vanishing in New York City
Unlike most men I was accustomed to about me, he was smooth-shaven. Chapter 13
I looked him up and down, taking in the unshaven cheeks, the missing button on his shirt, the ratty cuffs on his jeans. NO BODY

Some fabulously original singer-songwriters rose to sudden popular prominence… and were arrested, jailed, and sent into exile with shaven heads.
They are indescribably charming, John with his round, open face and close-shaven hair and Leo with his rascal grin and an explosion of curls pulled into a ponytail. Washington teens John and Leo Manzari have all the right dance moves
He'll have to stomach the invasion of his small little Baraboo in Sauk County as the uncleansed, the unshaven, the Communists, the Marxists, and the all out who-knows-what come for "Fighting Bob Fest. Archive 2005-09-01
Nadler turned out to be about my height, trimly built, clean-shaven, and wearing a gray glen plaid suit and a striped tie. HOPE TO DIE
Davis thinks the Wizard may also suffer from skin irritation -- he noticed a bit of a rash during Arenas's cleanshaven days. Gilbert Arenas and his crazy new beard: Barbers tell us what it means
Moving up his cheek, she could feel some rough stubble of his unshaven face.
The man was dark-eyed and smooth-shaven all except his mustache, which was so iced up as to hide his mouth. A DAY'S LODGING
His once bouffant hairdo had looked lank and stringy, and the perfectly unshaven designer stubble could not hide the lines on his face.
The only outward indicator of his age is the whisper of gray on his close-shaven head. One wild ride to the mainstream
The door opens, the shaven head behind it tilts pensively.
He used his newly-acquired knife to remove his beard, leaving him clean-shaven.
But, remember, you will have passed the Rubicon, when once you have been shaven: if you repent, and let your beard grow, your mouth will by-and-by show no longer what Messer Angelo calls the divine prerogative of lips, but will appear like a dark cavern fringed with horrent brambles.
She banned daytime photos by the pool showing her shaven head. The Sun
Unlike his usual clean-shaven hottie appearances, Ping Hui sported scraggly-looking facial hair for his upcoming Ch 8 CID/informant drama series with fellow MediaCorp artistes Chen Liping and Rui En. The man loves it and finds it a "manlier" look. Www.hardwarezone.com.sg
He is not explicitly called a Nazarite, nor is there any mention of the unshaven hair, but the severe austerity of his life agrees with the supposed asceticism of the Nazarites. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The cleric's unshaven face is dotted with stubble, for he has been attending at the royal bedside for many hours. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
The dome of the skull, hollow and shaven of hair, has been sawn off in a neat line running just above the eyes and ears. GRACE
There were livid bruises on his shoulder, and chest, he was unshaven, and his hair uncombed.
Slim, only five-feet-eight in height, with wavy brown hair, brushy eyebrows, and smooth-shaven face, he impressed one observer as a "delicate looking young man."
He was clean shaven, only a few small whiskers roughened his otherwise smooth chin.
He is middleaged, puffy faced and unshaven. Times, Sunday Times
Alexander did leave this time, a mixture of anger, fear and anxiety clouding his clean-shaven face.
He was dressed in floral shorts and had a shaven head. The Times Literary Supplement
He was shaven, and his coat was decent and his neat black, ready - tied four-in-hand had been presented to him by a lady missionary on Thanksgiving Day.
I looked at the unshaven chap's face. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
He was smelly, dirty, and unshaven but pleasant and friendly. Christianity Today
He was dishevelled, unshaven, his comb-over in disarray, and clouds of whiskey-fumes rose in a steady haze from between his chapped lips.
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
There are so many people who think that an agitator is necessarily an unwashed, unshaven man, in tatters, with a pamphlet in one hand and a bomb in the other who offers no other alternative except to choose between them. Is Quebec A British Province?
In those days, Bryan kept himself well dressed and was always a clean-shaven fellow.
He was clean shaven, had dark hair which was around one-and-a-half inches long with a slight wave, and was wearing a black hooded top with black jeans.
He was not clean-shaven, but in fact was sporting hints of a beard.
The rules bar anyone with tattoos, dreadlocks, shaven heads, facial jewellery or wearing denim and any men wearing earrings.
Nineteen years old, her head shaven, surrounded by placards branding her a witch, idolatress, and abjured heretic, she invoked the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, and St Michael the Archangel. Jehanne la Pucelle
Blanche scrutinised his round, bland face for any sign of insubordination but all she saw was a mask of ill-shaven skin.
The tallest attacker had a shaven head and a black eye.
A short , shaven - headed youngster said jokingly into the silence.
It seems there's a perception that it's a girlie programme, unsuitable for a strapping bloke with a shaven head.
The group of people there will almost certainly contain a number of men my age who are unshaven, whiffy, and wearing the same dirty tee shirt they slept in.
He was clean-shaven and also wearing a blue shirt.
The awful bristliness of my still-unshaven face had now surpassed mere "designer stubble" and passed into the unforgivable realms of "actually a beard".
Some interpretations of Islamic law require that men wear beards rather than being clean-shaven.
He looked even more swivel-eyed and unshaven than usual.
He met me at Waterloo Station in a black Barack Obama T-shirt and jeans, burly and baldheaded, semi-shaven, looking more like a skinhead punter than a vicar. The Velvet Reformation
They are well-suited and well-shod; well-shaven and manicured. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
He was clean-shaven and wore dark casual clothes.
A bald head is soon shaven.
Little eyes, a snubbish nose, wide, generous mouth, and heavy chin; clean-shaven now, but already beginning to bristle with the well-known beard of his past and future. Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead
It riffs on some other fundamental parts of the tap dance tradition, including the familiar shaven haircut and what's known as a hoofer's line. Concerto in Rhythm with Tap-Dance Revival
The examination was brusque and brutal and within a few minutes tears streaked Lionel's smooth-shaven cheeks. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
The Emperor Franz Josef favoured equally luxuriant mutton-chop whiskers - effectively a beard, with the chin shaven.
His mouth, settled between opulent, smooth shaven jowls, was full and sensual.
They were lowest for clean-shaven faces with small jaws. Times, Sunday Times
Edward was corpulent, had heavy unshaven jowls and dragged one foot because his shoe had no lace. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
Another was of stocky build, with short dark shaven hair.
Many men became clean-shaven - a marked change from the heavy beards of the mid-century, which, in their turn, had been a striking innovation, for beards had not been worn with wigs, the omnipresent hairpiece of the eighteenth century.
He's either half cleanshaven or half-bearded. Times, Sunday Times
In order to address their 'Magnum P.I.' hypothesis, the researchers undertook a series of associative choice experiments using both live males mustached versus cleanly shaven and video playbacks of the same male either with his mustache or with it removed. Carin Bondar: Excuse Me... I Think You've Got Something Stuck on Your Upper Lip
In the gloom she sees a square tough elderly smooth - shaven face, a total stranger.
I strolled into the control room from the studio, and noticed a large fat bloke with a shaven head, wearing a decrepit old tan mac.
His head, close-shaven at the sides, had wavy lines engraved in the stubble. The mission song
While Sahira continued to play push-me-pull-you with carefully unshaven Irishman Greg, Chrissie canoodled with galumphing babydaddy Sacha in full view of rectangle-headed ex Dan. World of Lather: a month in soap
The shaven-headed, doe-eyed beauty was never short on shock tactics and as a result was often the target of condemnation and negative press.
He is described as about 6ft tall, medium to thin build, with black and shaven hair.
When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment. Arabian nights. English
That's the impression this fair, clean-shaven gentleman gives.
However, the clean-shaven, well-dressed, spectacled man has an authoritative air which commanded respect.
They had false eyelashes, they had shaven their eyebrows, and they had coloured in 12 tones from the eyelash up to the eyebrows.
I was totally fascinated by those monks: by their robes and shaven heads, and by what I heard of their renunciant lifestyle, with its 227 rules of training.
A fairly young man, short, comfortably stout, smooth-shaven and with an intelligent face, he seemed a very nice man indeed. The Benefit of the Doubt
To honor the DC, it remains unshaven to this day.
Even his trademark shaven head is covered in a soft brown fuzz of hair.
He has wires and tubes attached to his body, huge scars across his shaven head, monstrous bedsores. Times, Sunday Times
But Dyer was coming down the stairs: a shaven head, burning black, close-set eyes, tight twill trousers. PASSION IN THE PEAK
He had a shiny hairless chest and was clean-shaven.
The clean-shaven trend may be due to the fact that many people tend to correlate an unshaven face with sloppiness.
He was unshaven with a mole on his right temple and was wearing a brown-coloured shirt.
Before me is not the debonair, gentleman writer I had expected but an unshaven, dishevelled man with wild, curly grey hair and frayed clothing.
In Rome, a now clean-shaven Jack meets with his boss, a stern white-haired gentleman who tells him to drive to a small Italian town to await further instructions.
The boy cocked one eye at him -- he knew that Jurgis was a "jailbird" by his shaven head. The Jungle
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.
At that time, he cut a sorry figure, often looking tired and unshaven, and he told this paper that he had contemplated suicide.
Edward was corpulent, had heavy unshaven jowls and dragged one foot because his shoe had no lace. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
He was tall and clean shaven, with chunks of wavy brown hair sweeping back from features that could only be described as hawklike. Firehorse
She, with her saffron robes and shaven head, embodies and personifies hard-core Hindutva without, at this late stage of her public career, having to make vitriolic speeches.
'He was walking ahead of me so I didn't really see his face, but I'm sure he was clean-shaven. THE BOOK LADY
As I look on, the first guy in the group, short and thin with a shaven head, comes to a stop, and he cocks his head sharply in my direction.
He likes having meaningful conversations, going out with friends and lazing around unshaven during off days.
You saw them, Buddy said -- "big shaven-headed fatsoes, bigger than me! Beard
The man was about thirty and unshaven, his unkempt, blonde hair knotted like some Rastafarian.
The audience had the usual haircuts, shaven or spiky, and the same tastes in branded designer gear.
Although he was clean-shaven, Jason had some industrial-strength steel wool whiskers.
Officials said the person was clean-shaven and wearing a blue and white striped shirt, gray shorts and brown sandals.
On billboards and in magazines around the world, the Swedish midfielder appeared shaven from his head down and covered in some sort of oily lubricant. Times, Sunday Times
He had dark gelled hair and may have been unshaven.
I arrived perplexed, cold and totally ill-prepared as a young naval officer at Wilhelmshaven that winter.
The crowd, solemn and tense, represented a heterogeneous cross-section of the Jewish population of the Yishuv: kibbutz members in sandals and khaki, socialist intellectuals in suits and wire-rimmed glasses, South African immigrants in their traditional garb, religious Zionists, clean-shaven and in skullcaps, and even ultra-Orthodox rabbis, bearded and behatted. 21 « May « 2008 « Niqnaq
I notice how nicely her nails are rounded and polished with pearl white, how smooth shaven her underarms are.
A trickle of drool oozed down his unshaven chin.
And can he sport a shaven head like that and deliver lines such as'My hair stands on end' without prompting giggles? Times, Sunday Times
The last thought brought a smile back to his unshaven face.
To appear at the office unshaven, or with unbrushed coat and dirty boots, proclaims at once a lack of respect to one's employers.
His hair was fixed nicely and he was now clean-shaven and he smelled quite good.
He had that sort of windswept hair and unshaven look that only an artist could pull off.
At the finish the shaven Tufte let out a small smile and gave the thumbs up while an exhausted Hacker slumped over his rigger.
He looked "gaunt," Paola said, unshaven and much thinner than the Maziar she knows. Waiting for Maziar
The man is described as dark-skinned and clean shaven with short hair. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Spring comes early in the sheltered, southern bay of Monkshaven, and already the bracken was sending up pushful little shoots of young green, curled like a baby's fist, while the primroses, bunched together in clusters, thrust peering faces impertinently above the green carpet of the woods. The Hermit of Far End
The wearer must be clean-shaven to wear respirators that seal tightly to the face. Beard, stubble or long mustaches may cause large leaks into the respirator.
Shaven-domed and lanky, he possessed an unmatchable, boneless judder. Times, Sunday Times
He was unshaven and had short shaved brown hair, gelled on top, brown eyes and wore a black jacket.
Compact, in his thirties, he had the shaven head and trimmed beard typical of a regime paramilitary. Times, Sunday Times
One study suggests a fully shaven swimmer gains a 5% advantage in the pool. Times, Sunday Times
ANNIE MURPHY (Freelance Journalist): Mario Gomez has carefully prepared for his TV interviews; he's clean-shaven, dressed in chinos, a spotless hooded sweatshirt and loafers. Oldest Chilean Miner Speaks About Rescue
A portly man was already in there, looking rather casual and unshaven.
I happened to be driving by that low-rent trailer park about the time he claims he was out, and I saw a grossly obese, unshaven, unbathed, toothless slob in pee-stained Spiderman underoos and his favorite Bart Simpson T-shirt that his mom bought him 15 years ago for his 10th birthday. Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case
He had a mass of rather long wavy brown hair thrown back from a smooth-shaven face and his mouth and chin spoke of determination and strength of will.
His black hair was neat and wavy and he was clean-shaven and dressed up.
A discussion on why he now has a shaven head is a case in point.
His beard straggles because he hasn't shaven for a week.
I'm unshaven, hungover and on a bus heading to a detention centre.
When one needs to call a young child, the hypocoristic form of the mother's name is used, e.g. ishaVeneth ‘Little Beneth’.
He has a strong jawline and is unshaven, the mark of a man who has recently given up his day job.
A few minutes later Mr Griffin himself turned up surrounded by minders; shaven-headed, bull-necked and looking like cheap club bouncers talking into radios and wearing black gloves for effect.
Off to work every morning, clean shaven, youthful necks in knotted ties, days spent in unknown labors, home again at suppertime to take a critical glance at the evening meal and to shake out the newspaper, hold it up between themselves and the muddle of the kitchen, the ailments and emotions, the babies. A Quiet Genius
He was once the clean-cut, smooth-shaven golden boy of French rugby.
On the other end of the phone, half the country away, is Vinnie, an unkempt, badly shaven, slovenly dressed loser.
Oppressors usually try to remove dignity when subjugating victims; the shaven heads of the prison camps did not hurt - they demeaned.
The dog-musher wore a mustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth-shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air. The Clinging Death
He was dressed in floral shorts and had a shaven head. The Times Literary Supplement
The Nanakpanthis of the present day are roughly classified as Sikhs who have not adopted the term Singh, which is attached to the names of all true Sikhs; they also do not forbid smoking or insist on the adoption of the five _Kakkas_ or K's which are in theory the distinguishing marks of the Sikh; the _Kes_ or uncut hair and unshaven beard; the _Kachh_ or short drawers ending above the knee; the _Kara_ or iron bangle; the _Khanda_ or steel knife; and the _Kanga_ or comb. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
It belonged to a man of about thirty, short-haired, clean-shaven, who sat at the head of the non-smokers ' end of the table. SLEEP WHILE I SING
They appeared in court unshaven and in casual clothes.
He was impressively tall, cadaverously thin, yet upright and youthful-looking for his age, clean shaven and silver-haired, with high, prominent cheekbones and a large aquiline nose. Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile
I found him in the lavatory, straight razor in hand, his half-shaven chin dotted in styptic, the water of his bowl a not unpleasant shade of pink. The Monstrumologist
The pawner was a large clean-shaven man of clerical appearance. His Last Bow
A young, tautly handsome, clean-shaven face dominated by deep-set clear blue eyes in which the pupils were strangely large, fierce. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Brady looked at the tall, gangly man with the rugged, clean-shaven face. Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War
Grimy and unshaven, he grinned gaptoothed, and returned the gesture.
The dog-musher wore a moustache, but the other, a taller and younger man, was smooth-shaven, his skin rosy from the pounding of his blood and the running in the frosty air. The Clinging Death
He was haggard, unshaven, half manic with lack of sleep.
The driver is described as a white male, late 20s or early 30s, thin build, 5ft 9ins, with dark hair and a sallow complexion, unshaven and wearing a dark sweater and trousers.
The school said he was not punished for his shaven head, but for rudeness. The Sun
He was shorter than the last one, but he was clean-shaven, and his head was bald.
A mane of hair was left on the foreparts while the back and hindquarters were shaven.
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is? how giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometime fashioning them like Pharaohs soldiers in the reechy painting; sometime like god Bels priests in the old church-window; sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his cod-piece seems as massy as his club? Act III. Scene III. Much Ado about Nothing
A portly man was already in there, looking rather casual and unshaven.
It took them six months of painstaking work - and they decided to give him a shaven head. Times, Sunday Times
His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Ivanhoe
He was clean shaven with a dimple on his chin and was wearing a long, black, hooded coat.
He was clean-shaven, dressed in fresh gear, and blinging so brightly, his presence was blinding. Stealing Candy
Mansfield, who was brought up sailing keelboats out of the Royal Cork Yacht Club at Crosshaven, seems to do better when he is battling in bigger fleets.
I was on the fag end of an extended cold, unshaven, lacking decent sleep and possibly a little dehydrated.
Barend Gerhardus "Bennie" le Roux, has black hair, is slender and about 1,8m tall, and is clean-shaven. ANC Daily News Briefing
His shoes were shined, his jaw cleanshaven. Times, Sunday Times
After a series of assassination attempts, Wirz was forced to make most of his journey to Washington in disguise: clean-shaven, and in a black suit and beaver hat.
When Conch finished and looked around once more, she found a ring of nasty, unshaven, dirty, men had emerged from the forest.
He wanders around Manhattan, unshaven, unbathed, and smoking and cussing a lot.
The shaven head denotes purity and egolessness and is said to mitigate past life karma.
Teresa Annunzio came to school briefly at lunchtime, her head shaven. THE THORN BIRDS
The sight of his old captain in rags, his eyes sunken, face unshaven and dirty and hair infested with lice, amused him.
He looked pale and unshaven.
Policemen filed in; one or two cases were tried and dismissed, the Malay witnesses trembling from head to foot, and then the wretch from the cage was brought in looking hardly human, as, from under his shaggy, unshaven hair and unplaited pigtail which hung over his chest, he cast furtive, frightened glances at the array before him. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. The devil doctor!
He showed in the pink of health; his unblemished, smooth-shaven skin shouted advertisement of his splendid physical condition. Chapter II
He set the alarm for ten o'clock and stretched out on the counterpane, unshaven and fully clothed. COMPULSION
Tiny droplets of rain soon formed a diaphanous cloche over her close-shaven head. BEHINDLINGS
The boy wore gray and black, his hair had been shaven, and he stood still, like a statue.
The door opened to reveal a gaunt, clean-shaven man.
This was, indeed, the Gunner Barling he used to know, with his smooth-shaven chin and neat brown moustache waxed at the ends and characteristic "quiff" decorating his brow. Okewood of the Secret Service
Eyes bursting open, she saw an unshaven, scruffy face.
He was dressed in floral shorts and had a shaven head. The Times Literary Supplement
Clean shaven and bald, save for a jet black goatee upon his chin, his age was nearly indeterminable.
It seems there's a perception that it's a girlie programme, unsuitable for a strapping bloke with a shaven head.
He was unshaven, with a monobrow, red cheeks and a pale face and wore a red shirt, a fleece and dark trousers.
Marcus paused to scrub at his clean-shaven face, then tousle hair inexpertly trimmed with his own shears. G'lder
Stolidly they sat, the serried soldiers, clean-shaven, square-jawed, looking slightly bored and, in at least one case that I spotted, rhythmically chewing gum.
As always, they were dirty, unshaven and reeking of vodka.
If you are a veteran cinemagoer, the genre of the East European war movie brings to mind pale, unshaven, craggy, muddy-faced soldiers in an apocalyptic setting.
Shavenness, featurelessness, emptiness, clamminess scurfiness, formed the outward expression of a town to which people were reasonably glad to come from London in summer-time, for there was nothing in Crikswich to distract the naked pursuit of health. Complete Short Works of George Meredith
He had curly black hair, was unshaven and had a local accent.
Out steps a smooth-shaven, tallish man wearing a pocket watch, a vintage military beret, and cradling a silver coffee canister.
He wore a black jumper, black woollen hat and was unshaven.
The once mighty Lord Chancellor, dressed as a common sailor with shaven eyebrows and coaldust smeared on his cheeks, hated with a furious intensity of loathing which has never been felt for an Englishman before or since, knocked fearfully at dead of night at the door of the house where his dying daughter lay. Highways and Byways in Surrey
The woman said he was stocky, with a large stomach and shaven hair.
He was hulking, unshaven, and shaking with lustful glee.
Every sheep within two miles Is nailing me accurately down With its hellishly-shaven starved-priest expression.
Mikhail and his crew - a privateering crew of former Soviet aviators, often half-cut on booze, always unshaven and mostly the wrong side of 40 -- had been there, done it, and got the T-shirt a thousand times, over Chechnya, Iraq, Somalia, Colombia, the Congo and here in Afghanistan. Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror
The intruder was described as being a clean shaven white male with glasses and around 55 years old.
He is white, tall, in his 20s, clean-shaven with short, dark hair and no facial hair.
Buck Mulligan showed a shaven cheek over his right shoulder.
Mr Li presides over it like a lean-shaven Confucius, grinding up powders and weighing remedies on a delicate pair of scales before dispatching them to the kitchen.
It was not wonderful that he had failed to recognise in the young _forcat_ with the shaven head and rough, stubbly beard the son whom he had abandoned more than a month before. The Blue Pavilions
The fourth member of the group was chubby with a shaven head, a blue jumper and wearing spectacles.
Otaheiteans, that is, of a clear mahogany or chesnut brown; his beard was cut short or shaven, and his hair was black, in short, frizzled curls, burnt as it were at the tops. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14

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