Example sentences for: shorn

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

  • Sequences that once were run together by a studio bent on linearity are now fractured and intercut in accordance with Welles' intentions, and the still-astonishing first shot has been shorn of credits and of the Henry Mancini theme that obscured its cacophonous sound mix.

  • To be buff but shorn of chest hair is to manifest male vanity and the desire for prolonged adolescence--two symptoms of male homosexuality, according to the Standard . The proliferation of pretty boys without chest pelts signals the degree to which gay values have distorted mainstream notions of manliness.

  • So word processor in Japan become wa-pro, personal computer becomes masu-komi , and commercial is unceremoniously shorn of its troublesome consonant clusters and shrunk to a terse monosyllable: cm.

  • When Imhotep goes to Hamunaptra--the City of the Dead--to revive her, he is stopped by the Pharoah's guards, shorn of his tongue, then wrapped in gauze and buried alive with a swarm of scabrous beetles.

  • In his book Lessons Learned the Hard Way , he presents himself as shorn of his old harshness and grandiosity, as well as of 30 or 40 pounds.


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