How To Use Sheared In A Sentence

  • The original cornice was sheared off from the existing backup stone and replaced with new marble.
  • Chromatin was sheared by sonication, and DNA associated with either CLF1 or ORC1 was separately co-immunoprecipitated using an anti-HA antibody.
  • The historic election sheared off a thin facade of wartime national unity and reinforced ethnic and sectarian tensions that have plagued the country for centuries.
  • Following each triaxial test it was noticed that the low strength specimens, grades C and D, generally sheared along one smooth inclined plane of failure.
  • It sheared past in a scream of iron, stripping away a section of the starboard rail and crushing the wooden gangway to matchwood. RUSHING TO PARADISE
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  • Children looked on as farmers sheared sheep in less than five minutes, while parents picked up tips on how to look after unusual creatures from specialist groups such as Essex Beekeepers.
  • The nose undercarriage was sheared off and one blade of the propeller was bent back underneath the nose of the aircraft.
  • The wool is sheared in early spring and sold to Tierra Wools.
  • Whatever had been on its prow was now gone, sheared off when the sleek vessel had been driven among the trees.
  • Sheared umbilicals have been an ongoing problem area, not only for the command but the entire Air Force.
  • In highly sheared rocks, relics of amphibolite-facies parageneses are lacking and the mylonite is made up of greenschist-facies mineral assemblages.
  • It is one year and two days since I sheared my hair off.
  • On touchdown, all three landing gears were sheared and the aircraft underside was substantially damaged.
  • Alex had spoken the truth - Drake had sheared his blonde hair to something that resembled Alex's hair cut, minus the spikes.
  • Pallas at the spinning wheel spins a thread out of the debris of sheared wool.
  • Where the Zeederbergs-Cheshire contact lacks ironstone horizons, the contact is variably sheared, and adjacent rocks are silicified and characterized by mostly oxidized sulphide impregnation.
  • Rocks adjacent to ironstones are strongly sheared, with the intensity of foliation and lineation decreasing away from ironstone horizon, signifying a pronounced strain gradient.
  • In the field, the boundary between crustal units and mantle units is marked by a zone of sheared serpentinite, which overlies more massive largely serpentinized, harzburgite and dunite.
  • Trees are sheared to the shape of an inverted ice cream cone with a wide base and a uniform taper to the tip of the tree.
  • Mom came home wearing her 3/4 length royal blue sheared beaver faux fur coat and her high heel black boots.
  • The rudder-tab-linkage fitting had also been sheared, disconnecting the rudder tab from the flight controls.
  • The carbonates in the footwall are strongly foliated and sheared parallel to the thrust.
  • The Lynx came down on its right-hand side, with the main rotor and tail sheared off by the impact and the cabin ablaze.
  • Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin.
  • Thousands of gallons of water gushed over the top of the dam downstream of Jowler Mill, causing damage to the front of the dam as stones sheared off.
  • Jolda feeds raw wool, newly sheared off a sheep, into what she calls her carding contraption. California Woman Uses Local Cotton, Wool for her Clothes
  • The jury heard how a vital gearbox component had sheared off, possibly due to oil starvation, leading to a chain of events that saw the gearbox disintegrate and a bolt fired into a fuel tank.
  • Their large herd of Angora goats that are sheared for the fiber the goats produce, mohair, are rounded up twice a year.
  • When he rose it was to shear off all his hair, and to order to have all the ornaments in the city taken off the walls and the manes and tails of all the horses sheared as well.
  • Exceptions to this rule are dark sheared faux furs, such as black sheared beaver and longhaired Mongolian lamb; cut these with the pile running upward.
  • A shaggy cloth, though coarsely woven and loose in texture, will be found warmer than an equally heavy cloth which is woven compactly, and which has been sheared, carded and teazled.
  • The bar fell into the machinery and sheared a connecting - rod.
  • Using elements as disparate as an overscale man's shirt minus collar, gathered and sheared yokes on coats, and asymmetrical accordion pleats, she created a collection as elegant as it was personal.
  • The tail of the autogyro sheared and the battery ripped free. Beowulf's Children
  • Wulfhere's shield fell from his arm in two pieces as the Atlantean's sword sheared clear through it, and Kull staggered as the Northman's ax, driven with all the force of his great body, descended on the golden circlet about his head. People of the Dark
  • A large part of one of its jumbo jet engines sheared off shortly after it landed at Manchester from New York.
  • He sheared the wool from the sheep.
  • It was also interesting to hear that the doubledecker bus was sent to Dubai on the deck of a freighter and had the top nearly sheared off by a container being offloaded, which sent the production crew into a panic (and fits of uncontrollable giggles) until they figured out a way to write the damage into the script. CSI: Vulcan : Bev Vincent
  • Sheep are sheep and they still need to be fed, watered, sheared, bred and lambed, however back 70 years or so ago, it was a little bit different when sheep herders lived alone with their dogs and were housed in sheep wagons with wood heat and enough groceries to last out the week. A Sunday book review....
  • Brecciated and sheared ironstones were exploited for gold at several localities in the Mafic Formation.
  • The early settlers kept small flocks from which they sheared wool that was needed to clothe their families to protect them from the severe cold.
  • The bow sheared off the wreck about 30m from the end, and slid down the slope to 45m where it now lies on its port side.
  • When first examined in early September, erosion through a 3- to 5- m sequence of glacial outwash and overlying till had exposed 17 sheared stumps rooted within a well-preserved paleosol Figure 2. Stumped in Alberta « Climate Audit
  • Bands of sheared sandstone, mudstone, and conglomerate locally form broken units indicating deformation prior to full lithification of sediment, consistent with an accretionary complex origin.
  • The mineralized environment is a sheared and possibly mylonitized contact zone between a gabbroic unit and metasediments with a steep dip to the southeast. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • With a furious oath Conan struck, and his sword sheared the horrid shape in half. The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian
  • The entire front part of the figure, including the hands and knees, has sheared off, but otherwise it is in excellent condition and is a rare example of royal sculpture of the later Twentieth Dynasty.
  • One example is procumbent rosemary, used extensively as a ground cover and sheared several times a year.
  • Spruces, firs and Douglas-fir can be sheared with good results from late July or early August and continuing until just before new growth starts the following spring.
  • Sericite alteration is ubiquitous within the sheared rocks, and fuchsite and biotite have been observed locally. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The front right wheel had been completely sheared from what Julia believed was called the axle. Some Fun
  • A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
  • One example is procumbent rosemary, used extensively as a ground cover and sheared several times a year.
  • A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
  • Bulldozers had systematically sheared off one home after another between theirs and the border.
  • The sheep are sheared and their wool sold; dogs, cats and rabbits provide a warm cuddle even while teaching responsibility.
  • In newspaper offices you belong at once or you never belong; and to belong is to have your name sheared to as few syllables as possible. The Drums of Jeopardy
  • A few deciduous bushes make nice hedges, although many look best grown informally rather than sheared.
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  • But as we say, we are watching very closely the storms clouds, convective activity as they say -- so-called anvil clouds which are sheared off thunder clouds. CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2006
  • By and by the artist came over, and nearly wept with despair when he saw his subject sheared of the auburn, gray-sprinkled aureola that had made his first sketch a success. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • Several hull plates buckled outward and sheared off completely, exposing the innards of the fiddleship.
  • Six shavers sheared six shy sheep.
  • a coat of sheared lamb
  • Most of the studs holding the cylinder on had sheared off.
  • The witness further stated that the gear became stuck in the sand and was sheared off at the shock strut.
  • While he scrubbed himself from head to toe, she sheared his hair, leaving just enough in back to cover his branded neck.
  • The impact sheared one of the track rails in two.
  • Stratigraphically from bottom to top it is composed of sheared serpentinite on the basal thrust, layered harzburgitedunite, layered dunite with chromitite, and harzburgite with finegrained gabbro.
  • At the last moment possible, the shoe sheared off, narrowly missing my head, and instead contacting my left shoulder.
  • By the way, I do not recommend using hedge trimmers as it gives a too sheared appearance.
  • This allowed it to swing down and strike the forward outflow valve and another fiberglass duct, which in turn sheared off the top of the vacuum pump.
  • Two months later, one of Rachel's new front teeth ‘sheared off’ as she was biting a slice of bread.
  • A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
  • The results may look simple, but the shape has in fact been gently molded to flatter, and the edges sheared and overlapped to offer glimpses of the neck and brow through the outer layers.
  • When the loops have been sheared off on one side, the fabric is known as velour.
  • It sheared through bone and muscle alike, the strident snapping of the femur reverberating inside the room.
  • We sold all kinds of things from the farm: weaner pigs, lambs for slaughter, sheared wool for hand-spinners, chicken fryers and eggs, as well as yogurt and fresh cheese from our Jersey cows.
  • The left wing had been almost completely sheared off.
  • In race two he burst from ninth on the grid to hold an excellent third place before his gear change sheared off in a close tangle with second placed Rick Ellis, leaving him in fourth gear for the rest of the race.
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  • Along much of its exposed length, the unconformable contact was intensely sheared during subsequent ductile deformation.
  • The main landing gear had been sheared off and the nosegear was twisted, bent backwards and jammed into the fuselage aft of the wheelwell.
  • He sheared the barrel from a man's gun and drove his dirk into the man's stomach.
  • As soon as they entered the town, Pinocchio noticed that all the streets were filled with hairless dogs, yawning from hunger; with sheared sheep, trembling with cold; with combless chickens, begging for a grain of wheat; with large butterflies, unable to use their wings because they had sold all their lovely colors; with tailless peacocks, ashamed to show themselves; and with bedraggled pheasants, scuttling away hurriedly, grieving for their bright feathers of gold and silver, lost to them forever. Adventures of Pinocchio
  • The bolt sheared and the wheel came off.
  • The grain structure of the metal is stretched and torn, not sheared off as it would be from a true detonation.
  • A line of pain sheared through his torso, driving him to the floor, where he writhed, scrabbling at his back. Excerpt: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
  • And in a railroad underpass near Exit 29 a curious disfigured hubcap like a skull neatly sheared in half. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
  • A jet plane sheared the blue sky.
  • The brick chimney was sheared in at least two places, but it remained standing.
  • Political conflict of the seventeenth century pushed the state out of the economy and sheared its patrimonial attributes.
  • Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese. The Blue Flower
  • After the leader is cut, the top whorl and the sides of the tree are sheared to the desired cone shape and taper.
  • The original cornice was sheared off from the existing backup stone and replaced with new marble.
  • Look to fashion magazines and mail-order catalogs for silhouette ideas and to determine whether you prefer a long-pile fur such as fox or Mongolian lamb, or shorter ones such as chinchilla, sheared beaver or leopard.
  • The rocks have been intensely deformed and sheared and the calcareous conglomeratic sandstones are well indurated.
  • Conan's sword sheared through his skull as through a ripe melon. The Bloody Crown of Conan
  • This can be seen everywhere from low plasma processes (where neutrals are accelerated by the rf variation of the plasma) to atmospheres (where I hear the Mars atmosphere expulsion gets a significant boost by its distorted multipole field as magnetic "pockets" are sheared off into space – Mars partial field is not protecting the atmosphere as Earth's full dipole, it is "pumping" it). Spacecraft Detects Mysterious "Ribbon" at Edge of Solar System | Universe Today
  • The truck, which was not overloaded, came to a stop after a front wheel sheared off.
  • Six shavers sheared six shy sheep.
  • Before Tsotha could toss the globe in his left hand, Conan's sword sheared through his lean neck. Wings in the Night
  • An accidental dropping of one magazine on the concrete floor of the indoor firing range sheared off a piece of plastic leaving the magazine in pieces, nonrepairable and unusable.
  • But after years of armed struggle against New York's royal governors and sheriffs over the New Hampshire Grants, 37-year-old Ethan Allen—tall, muscular and "a commanding figure in his forest green greatcoat and sheared beaver tricorn hat"—and his Green Mountain Boys were ready to fight for independence. Founding Father (Of Vermont)
  • When it snows again, snowplows bury your car, which may or may not have escaped one more week of having the rearview mirrors sheared off by passing delivery trucks.
  • The bar fell into the machinery and sheared a connecting - rod.
  • The shepherd swiftly sheared the sleepy sheep with the sharp scissors.
  • The mother sheared the half-grown fleece from a sheep, and in a week had spun, wove, and made it into clothing, the sheep being protected from cold by a wrappage made of braided straw. Women Wage-Earners Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
  • The bolt sheared and the wheel came off.
  • When it snows again, snowplows bury your car, which may or may not have escaped one more week of having the rearview mirrors sheared off by passing delivery trucks.
  • Once upon a time, Labor leaders drove trains or sheared sheep or, at the very least, did a few years' yakka on the factory floor.
  • These blocks are enclosed in a matrix of sheared, serpentinized ultramafic rocks and thus the entire sequence constitutes another melange.

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