shear
verb (used with object)
to cut (something).
have sheared
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present perfectof shear.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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I have sheared sheep when I had no money to pay herders, slept out in the hills on the ground on a saddle blanket with my saddle for a pillow.
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart
"You have sheared your little sheep; I came out, also, to shear my black sheep, and now you all seem bent on shearing me."
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Fritz Reuter
The shepherd has washed it; and we have sheared it.
From The Child's World Third Reader by Hetty Browne; Sarah Withers; W. K. Tate
The costume of most is limited to shirt and trousers, the material for which their own hands or those of their women-folk have sheared, spun, woven and dyed.
From The Duke of Stockbridge by Edward Bellamy
