Example sentences for: shorn

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.

  • 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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