shear

Example Sentences

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Inside were fabrics, sewing shears, a pincushion of needles, and several spools of thread.

From Literature

Instead the final four candidates for the job were a range of eager submissives, each straining to appear enthusiastic to pick up the pruning shears and start cutting rates by the bunch:

From The Wall Street Journal

Most of the trees around them were still upright, but their tops had been sheared off in the blast.

From Literature

Even though the inner core is solid, it behaves like a softened metal, slowing seismic shear waves and displaying a Poisson's ratio more similar to butter than to steel.

From Science Daily

Over the past twenty years, this shelf has developed increasing fractures around a major shear zone located upstream of that pinning point.

From Science Daily