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Example sentences for: shearing

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The publicity of private hair is a long story; it figures in the willingly shaven heads of ancient priests and modern skinheads, in the punitive shearing of male convicts and female French collaborators, in huge powdered wigs and elaborately extended curls or braids.
The pan is the part of the gunlock that contains a small quantity of fine gunpowder ignited by sparks produced by the flint shearing small bits of metal from the frizzen . A small hole bored in the barrel allows the charge to be ignited.
That mostly leaves creative topiary, with shearing and partial shearing included, for the fantasy life of male hair.
We propose that this could represent a physiologically-relevant mechanism by which resveratrol, as a polyphenolic constituent of red wine, contributes to cardioprotection by inducing resistance to potential damage by shearing forces.
Zonae pellucidae were removed by treating the eggs for 3 min with 10 μg/ml α-chymotrypsin (Sigma, St. Louis, MO) followed by mechanical shearing.