Sheared is an English word with synonyms like shorn or cut. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sheared in a sentence
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Sheared meaning
simple past and past participle of shear
Using Sheared
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of shear
- Useful related words include: shorn, unsheared, cut.
- In the example corpus, sheared often appears in combinations such as: sheared off, sheared in, and sheared.
Context around Sheared
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 10 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sheared
- In this selection, "sheared" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, impact, winds, mountainside, off, wool and away stand out and add context to how "sheared" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include altered and sheared mafic units and an airplane sheared off a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sheared" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sheared
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The small black car was sheared in half. (8 words)
The impact sheared off the pole, according to Stoneback. (9 words)
Even today, weavers wash freshly sheared wool in soapy water to remove the lanolin. (14 words)
The best burgers are real beef, fat carving rivers as it melts, sitting on a nest of dressed lettuce, onion sheared as thin as a ghost, and, yes, with cheese so yellow it hurts your eyes. (36 words)
In 2013, another Ottawa double-decker bus broke through a warning gate and collided with a Via Rail train in suburban Barrhaven, killing six people as the train sheared off the front of the vehicle. (35 words)
The fur salon, she said, does a swift business in reversible coats, with sheared mink on one side and taffeta on the other: a luxury product fit for the age of Instagram shaming. (33 words)
Or should it be sheared off or trimmed in case it cushioned the Kyiv Cat’s punches or aggravated any damage to his face? (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
The impact sheared off the pole, according to Stoneback.
There were horrific scenes when the Liberator hit a tree and sheared off a wing, causing fuel in the wing tank to explode.
The winds sheared in half a massive pin oak toward the eastern end of the city’s St. Clair Park, temporarily blocking part of a paved walking path.
When plants are sheared with power clippers, they soon become unnatural looking balls or boxes with very thick growth.
A mass of boulders, earth and splintered trees devastated Yambali in the South Pacific nation’s remote highlands when a limestone mountainside sheared away on Friday.
Each tree on this farm is hand-sheared, resulting in a unique appearance when it’s full-grown.
Or should it be sheared off or trimmed in case it cushioned the Kyiv Cat’s punches or aggravated any damage to his face?
The Crown Prince deposit is hosted within quartz-carbonate veins within altered and sheared mafic units.
When he was caught on Thursday, Bailey had sheared his locks and was sporting a low cut hairstyle.
Even today, weavers wash freshly sheared wool in soapy water to remove the lanolin.
Gray is planning to livestream Prickles’ impending shearing, and plans to give viewers a chance to bet on the overall weight of the sheared wool.
The Funky Jumper is made from 100% British wool sheared from Yorkshire-raised sheep in the UK.
The fur salon, she said, does a swift business in reversible coats, with sheared mink on one side and taffeta on the other: a luxury product fit for the age of Instagram shaming.
In 2013, another Ottawa double-decker bus broke through a warning gate and collided with a Via Rail train in suburban Barrhaven, killing six people as the train sheared off the front of the vehicle.
Photographs from flights over Abaco show trees sheared of limbs and leaves and saltwater ponds covering swaths of land where homes once stood.
The best burgers are real beef, fat carving rivers as it melts, sitting on a nest of dressed lettuce, onion sheared as thin as a ghost, and, yes, with cheese so yellow it hurts your eyes.
The small black car was sheared in half.
According to police, a pickup truck sheared a utility pole along State Route 837 around midnight.
An airplane sheared off a power pole and crashed west of Alexandria Saturday night, killing the pilot, who was flying solo.
I just thought it hilarious to watch this driver keep going on two flat tires, dragging the bumper that had been sheared off by the cops.
Common combinations with sheared
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sheared off 11×
- sheared in 3×
- and sheared 2×
- are sheared 2×
- be sheared 2×
- sheared wool 2×
- sheared from 2×
- truck sheared 2×
- sheared the 2×
- that sheared 2×