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Example sentences for: shearing

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That mostly leaves creative topiary, with shearing and partial shearing included, for the fantasy life of male hair.
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.
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.
Shotgun libraries of PCR products were constructed as the other libraries but without the size-selection step and with an increase in the shearing pressure from 10 to 20 psi and increase in time from 2 to 5 min.
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.