Example sentences for: shorn

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

  • Now shorn of his revolutionary beard and wearing rimless Western spectacles, he says that "after 20 years of great difficulties, including a war imposed on us and poor economy," he and his peers are "confronting the demand of the people to participate in politics."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • But then, like an endearment to a beloved one, they will murmur “pashmina” and spread before you a shawl of soft, warm wool shorn, they tell you, from the underbelly of the wild Himalayan goats.


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