shorn

Example Sentences

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As she drifts through town, feeling suddenly shorn of her identity, she comes across a traveling circus and is somehow taken on as a volunteer for the sawing-in-half trick, which involves hiding inside a box.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

However, the sale means the group is shorn of its most profitable division, raising the danger that it falls short of its revenue growth forecasts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Power lines were down and trees were shorn of all leaves.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

Yet another U turn was sanctioned, leaving his plans appearing threadbare, shorn of their central pillars of just a week ago.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2025

I watched as the men gathered wheat into sheaves and the women, with bent backs, gleaned the shorn fields.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein