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Example sentences for: shearing

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Life in the Lakes is still organized by the seasons and the activities of lambing, shearing, taking goods to market, and overwintering (the local farmers’ term for “surviving the winter”).
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.
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.