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Sentence Examples There is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed. During its 1864 season 41,000 sheep were shorn, providing work for an army of musterers, shearers, woolclassers, packers and teamsters. It can become one's bell sheep, caught just before the bell goes and able to be shorn at leisure into the break. I amused myself by calling people from the sheep barn and leaving the bleats of shorn sheep on their machines. And as of today I have had my hair shorn down to a more manageable length again. Often used to reclaim low fertility grazing, Soay are particularly unusual in that their fleece is plucked off rather than shorn. The only difference was her new haircut, shorn sides and a spiked up fin, now dyed black. It is hip hop shorn of repeated loops and minimalist beats shot through with a dose of stone cold melodicism. Venetia would be given to the Habsburgs, shorn of a number of outlying territories which would consolidate French conquests further west. I rub my hair with oil pressed from hemp seed, oil from the crushed seed of flax, wool fat boiled from the shorn fleeces of ivory ewes. Much of the land was intensely cultivated, a dry quiltwork of barley fields and hayfields and pastures shorn down to the dirt by goats and sheep. About him stood three priests, true shavelings, clean shorn and polled, who were muttering strange words to the devils out of a conjuring book. Or they are removed from the wool prior to processing, once the sheep is shorn. The Pope was shorn of all his Temporal Power, with the exception of his palaces, diplomats, and Swiss guards. The shorn cliff top gives way to longer grasses, which droop over the path. Resplendent in bright orange, black and red, his comb, wattles and ear lobes have been shorn off. The heavy fleece shorn from these lambs is of exceptional quality and very, very soft. She remains comically naive even when she is put in a straightjacket and has her hair shorn. However, in some cases heavy losses occurred among recently shorn sheep and newly born lambs. The shearing board should be kept free of locks and must be swept after each animal is shorn. Show More Sentences As his hair is shorn off, the young boy feels he is moving into a new stage. The unsettling Self-Portrait with Braid was painted the year after Frida had shorn her hair following the divorce. I've had my hair shorn that day and, with the barber's little razor cuts adorning my dome, I'm looking at my baddest. A young man, tan-skinned, with his hair shorn down to a round fuzz, opened the passenger door. In a sustainable-use program, wild vicunas are herded, captured, shorn of their fleece, and released unharmed. They went barefoot, their hair was shorn, and they each wore only a single garment. His material is shorn of all excess baggage and his ability to lock on a small aspect of everybody's lives and turn it askew is priceless. The new Commons will be smaller than the old 659-seat House, which has been shorn of 13 Scottish constituencies because of devolution. After Waterloo, France was shorn of more territory, and had to pay an indemnity and suffer an army of occupation for five years. After years of operating an autocratic regime, he faces the prospect of being shorn of his dominant position should the banks succeed. It needs to be shorn of zingers and rage and allowed to make the point clearly. The price of shares will plunge to zero and, shorn of its source of capital, the enterprise is forced to fold. Rome has not been shorn of its potential for glory but Scotland must finish the championship on a high. Somehow, his voice has been shorn of its trademark vibrato and rendered unrecognisable. A cold southerly rain storm caught the newly shorn wethers and four hundred died because the cold congealed the fat around their kidneys. The uneven ends of her hair were shorn to a neat, straight line. The hair was shorn after the gassings, then efficiently dried in the crematoria so it could be industrially spun into carpeting. Norwegian royalty is shorn of regalia but is safety ensconced in respect. Even shorn of all that gratuitous nudity, though, Drive He Said would be far from a masterpiece. The facades of two six-story buildings have been shorn off, allowing a glimpse into wrecked apartments. Show More Sentences During the 1897 season more than 28,000 sheep were shorn at the Etadunna shed which had sixteen stands, eight for native shearers and eight for the whites. It was as if Garbo had shorn her hair and entered a nunnery. She alleged she was kept in solitary confinement on occasions, deprived of food and sustenance, had her hair shorn and was stripped of her clothes on a number of occasions. It is terraced and dotted with houses almost to the top, which is shorn of trees, revealing a red streaked rock that takes on a coppered hue in the setting sun. Their Marxism has been shorn of even the most basic understanding of historical materialism, of the progress of and changes to societies throughout the ages. The art students, who were here making sculptures, have gone, there is a shearing team in the shearing quarters now, and sheep are being shorn in the shearing shed. In the portraits, sitters appear shorn of pretense and disguise. He wears his hair shorn to stubble and a soul patch under his lower lip. O'Rowe's adaptation strips the play down to its essentials and presents a spare and tight historical drama shorn of any excess speechifying and wandering. Today, shorn of its Odeon cinemas and Pinewood studios, the entertainment group's tie with the film industry is limited to its Deluxe film processing unit. Then she was ordered to change her clothes and sweep up her shorn tresses before the house was locked and she was told she would be kept inside until her bruises subsided. The duties of the picker-up are to pick up the fleeces when shorn, sweep the board, and separate the pieces, locks, stains, and bellies from the floor sweepings. Possibly the most significant of all was Koorana's domination of the Shearing Class, in which a team of four goats are shorn and their fleeces then weighed and graded. But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir. It is a collection of sayings of Jesus, shorn of most narrative setting, and often Gnostic in feel, presenting Jesus as a teacher of esoteric wisdom. For it is an elementary proposition that if a vote is not cast for one of the two highest candidates it is completely shorn of its elective power. Shorn of its mobile cash cow, the company has been forced to concentrate on upgrading its fixed line network. Shorn of its string arrangement, Drake's incredible guitar playing and effortless melodic sense are all the more apparent. These include greasy shorn wool, including fleece-washed wool, shorn wool, degreased wool, carbonised wool, all neither carded nor combed. The lambing season at that time was in March and lambs were shorn in August. Show More Sentences Shorn of their roots, the leaves can be plunged briefly into boiling water then either into a pan of hot butter and black pepper or shaken with some walnut or olive oil. Animal furs used in garments and trim may be dyed bright colors or to mimic exotic animal patterns, or shorn down to imitate the feel of a soft velvet fabric. The exact shape of the Irish tonsure is unclear from the early sources, although they agree that the hair was in some way shorn over the head from ear to ear. At the end of the film version of The Chosen, the son, shorn of his distinctive earlocks and without his Hasidic dress, is shown departing for his new life. Tulip trees, the tallest in the city, were entirely shorn of all their limbs by the harsh winds, leaving little choice but to remove the tall, still-standing trunks. Examples from Classical Literature Nearly sixty thousand sheep are shorn annually in the shearing shed, a few minutes' walk from the hotel. Ill and despairing, he retired to his house at esher, shorn of all his offices. Though they may be shorn of their glory, they retain their place in the organism of knowledge. When it was all shorn off she crept out of the room without opening her eyes. Tahawus and whiteface are indeed visible from the Saranac waters, but far away, and shorn of much of their grandeur. He went over to the soapbox table, shorn of its gorgeous cover, the photograph alone adorning it. The ewes, not knowing their shorn lambs, did not make the customary signal. Thus the lowercase f and y and the uppercase Q are shorn of their due proportions. He is a spiritual half-brother to Laforgue's Hamlet, shorn of that ironist's humour. At suppertime, when Dave Cowan came, he was wetting the shorn sward with spray from a hose. Cloth of a high wool is not in request, but such as is low shorn is most vendible. He wore a hunting-shirt of forest green, fringed with faded yellow, and a summer cap of skins which had been shorn of their fur. But the limitations of alaskan conditions have shorn all profit from the enterprise. The archdeaconry of Richmondshire remained, but the archdeacon was shorn of power. You'll be shorn like a lamb one of these days, with your benevolence. But how shorn of his former glory is the clockmaker in these conditions! In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War the crop lien became a widespread instrument of credit in a land shorn of capital. Looking thus at life, shorn of its superrational sanctions, Saxon floundered into the morass of pessimism. Who flops in the chair and demands to be shorn of his bristles. All the proud foliage Of the crested forests is shorn, and shrivels down Beneath the blade of ice. Show More Sentences Lucy can see her now, the people she's leading, their speech all shorn to sibilants and gutturals. God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, will watch over you! The yard, which had been so attractive, was shorn of its decorations. It was shorn entirely of mudguards, running boards, and other impedimenta. The tsarevna looked and saw that all of them had their locks shorn off. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. It was one of her own offspring, only shorn of its unessential adornments. All might have gone well even yet, only that, by ins and outs and crookedness of laws, I was shorn like a sheep that is clipped to the quick. Little by little the phylum has been shorn of orders and classes. The roots still held, while the tree had been shorn of its windage. He had been shorn, at one cut, of all those mysterious weapons whereby he had been able to make a living easily and to escape the consequences of his actions. The hills, to their tops, had been shorn of trees, and their naked sides showed signs of goring and perforating that even the mantle of snow could not hide. Raid after raid was made upon the smartest houses in town, and within a few weeks more than one exalted head had been shorn of its priceless tiara. A palace, though its outer wings are shorn, And domes of glittering tiles. Shorn was the unkempt mop of hair and vanished the impudent swagger. We had finger sandwiches, correctly shorn of crusts, requisite scones with proper clotted cream and jam, jellies, lemon possets and mini crme brles. Shorn of its medical phraseology and technicalities, it amounted to the fact that Mrs. Find more words! 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