shear

How To Use shear In A Sentence

• The lower mandible, which is powerful, and is indented at its point to receive the hook, has a very sharp edge, which, with that of the upper mandible, constitutes a pair of formidable shears. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
• Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pathogens in Harm’s Way:
• Slow the airplane to reduce impact forces; also, you'll likely encounter wind shear and strong downdrafts.
• By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
• What became clear was just how many brides found it disheartening. The Sun
• The more is principal stress deviator peak, the more possible is to emerge negative pore water pressure and to show more shear dilatation with high dry density.
• The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies USATODAY.com
• a type of slip of the ear in which people mishear a word and mispronounce it, then insist that the malapropism is correct. Eggcorns: Folk Etymology Creating New Meanings Every Day
• Neither the normal stress nor the frictional shear stress acting on the cone tip surface is uniformly distributed.
• When control the flying shear, T400 technology board can workout program with parameter mode completely. So it can be provided with exact position, fewer fault, convenient maintenance and so on.