shear
verb (used with object)
to cut (something).
has sheared
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present perfectof shear (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There’s an analogy here: As antsy as its shareholders are after a yearlong sell-off that has sheared its stock price in half, the best buyer for Yelp might be no buyer.
From Slate ● May 11, 2015
He has sheared his purebred Chow, Hobo, to look like a lion: "He's my buddy."
From Time Magazine Archive
A nearly perpendicular drop in prices has sheared a staggering $100 billion off the value of exchange-listed shares in the past six weeks and plunged Wall Street into its blackest gloom in two decades.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why, somebody has sheared all of Trip's hair off, except a tuft on the end of his tail, which looks like a swab.
From Winning His Way by Charles Carleton Coffin
He looks just like the sheep, after 'Gustus John has sheared them.
From Cricket at the Seashore by Harriet Roosevelt Richards
