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How to use shavings in a sentence

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He went for the plum tomato, buffalo mozzarella and rocket salad with Parmesan shavings, basil and virgin olive oil.
It's a wee bit more expensive per bale than shavings but it is, according to the bumf, four times more absorbent.
Engraving will produce small shavings of your base material and they might scratch the surface when moving your hand back and forth.
The roquette you simply dress in a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar, then top with fresh shavings of Parmesan.
Pumpkin soup was next, fit for Cinderella, with lardons and crispy shavings of Jerusalem artichoke.
Even the cheapest Chardonnay, they said, needed its requisite shavings before it would sell.
Ginger had black olive penne pasta with tomato, basil and black olives, topped with Parmesan shavings.
My head drooped toward my work table until it rested among the metal shavings and thin blades.
There's a clock ticking somewhere, slicing tiny shavings from your day, your week, your month, your year, your life.
This allows the use of a clean cut for each chamber with no metal shavings to scratch the surface.
A thin layer of shavings goes on the mats each day to soak up excess moisture.
As her desire for a White Christmas grows, the shavings of snow form into larger flakes that settle on her coat, making her cold but cheerful.
Aspen shavings, crushed corn-cob, hardwood chip and shredded paper bedding are used to keep the mouse homes dry and tidy.
The girls used pencils, wood shavings, plaster, fabric and pencil shavings for this design.
Black fruits, pencil shavings, liquorice, sparky acidity and assertive tannins combine for a satisfying mouthful.
I was a real, live guinea pig, ready to be flung into my very own jungle gym of plastic tubes and shavings.
We began with a pan-fried duck foie gras, perfumed with raspberry vinegar and thin sliced pears and Parmesan shavings.
Just before serving, whisk again and sprinkle a few Parmesan shavings on the surface.
Top this with the freshest shavings and curls of golden Parmesan and some extra herbs, and those flavours just sing out.
Piles of coal dust or wood shavings are scattered all over the compound to collect cat litter.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In their place, from skirting-board to skirting-board, the floor was ankle-deep in shavings.
The toast was crisp and yellow, the butter fresh, and the shavings of chipped beef crimson and tender.
This preparation is frequently substituted for guaiacum shavings in the preparation of compound decoction of sarsaparilla.
Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.
There were some unconsumed shavings there, as well as a tin which had once held paraffin.
And among the shavings, like so many lighthouses in a Yellow Sea, burnt four or five fat ecclesiastical candles.
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them in a mortar with size.
This is employed under the form of shavings, raspings, and sawdust, in decoctions only.
During the winter there should be about 10 inches of dry litter in the form of straw, peat moss or shavings mixed with the straw.
The former consists of shavings from old documents, and the latter of birdlime for new converts.
A sufficient amount of Dry Ice is then placed in the package which is then packed tight with more sawdust or shavings.
This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
The tree-trunks were of coarse wood, but the leaves of the trees were shavings.
It was full of little brown chips that looked like the shavings of some root.
The choking of a plane is the stoppage of the throat by shavings.
Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boatbuilders, and mast oar and block makers.
The lumber was hard to work because it was full of frost, and the boards gave off a sweet smell of pine woods, as the heap of yellow shavings grew higher and higher.
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