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Example sentences for: sheared

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As he coughed up his sources he sheared the sharper edges off his story.
The curls are still there, thank God--they won't be sheared till later in the season--but everything else on the show now seems like a grim and ugly parody of itself.
In this case, there's a good reason to buy American: Most Asian fleece has been napped, but it hasn't been combed or sheared.
Libraries were prepared according to the double adaptor method [ 39] with the following modifications: DNA was sheared using the Hydroshear (Gene Machines, San Carlos, CA) at speed code 2 for 25 cycles.
Total M. paratuberculosis genomic DNA was isolated and randomly sheared using a nebulizer and compressed nitrogen according to protocols developed by Bruce Roe's laboratory http://www.genome.ou.edu.