clean-shaven

Example Sentences

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Clean-shaven before the war, he now wears a long ginger and grey-speckled beard.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

Clean-shaven now, Andrey looked younger than his 31 years, like the gentle, artistic boy he had been before the psychosis took hold.

From New York Times • Jan. 28, 2024

Clean-shaven, with dimples and loosely cropped silver hair, Dickinson is better known to a certain fraction of the world as the lead singer of the heavy-metal band Iron Maiden.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 29, 2016

Clean-shaven, and dressed in a polo shirt and khaki slacks, I thought that I’d done a decent job of looking the part of the preppy first-year medical student.

From Time • Oct. 2, 2015

Clean-shaven, with a square jaw, dark ringlets for hair, and smiling eyes.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz