Example sentences for: shave

How can you use “shave” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some--such as a colored strip to indicate when the blade needs replacing--are aimed more at beefing up the profit margin than at improving the shave.

  • The WP finds one who says the problems with Asia's currencies could shave two-tenths of a percentage point off the growth of the U.S.

  • Both papers mention that Net technology has served as a brake on inflation, but the LAT is clearer about why--the paper relates that Hewlett-Packard has saved more than $200 million annually by linking employees on an internal network and will shave 70 percent off its paper costs via making personnel policies and payroll forms available online.

  • I sat soaking at about 100°F, while an exuberant gentleman on my left, who was wearing his washcloth draped over his head, gave me his four words of English: New York, Broadway, Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon . The real cultural joy, however, lay in just immersing myself in this aura, evoking Dante and 8½, and watching the occupants through the steamy haze as they lathered, rinsed, and squatted on little plastic stools to shave before low-hung misted mirrors against the walls—all this before I slap-slapped back to my room to enjoy dinner on the floor.

  • Starting in August, a $300 million advertising campaign will show jet pilots breaking the sound barrier--and then being magically transported to their bathrooms, where they'll enjoy the quickest, slickest shave in history.


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