- present tense form of shear (3rd person singular).
shears
Example Sentences
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Other items such as an Oxo wooden spoon set, a Le Creuset wine stopper and Wusthof shears - all bought on Amazon - were photographed inside the motorhome.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I found the most beautiful, and still-sharp, Japanese sewing shears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
Kathleen Ferguson grabbed a pair of pruning shears from a mailbox nailed to a garden bed and leaned down to cut bunches of Orlaya grandiflora on the flower-filled hillside.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
He wore a heard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an informed notion of their appearance.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
