shear
verb (used with object)
to cut (something).
is shearing
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present progressiveof shear (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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And Alan Greenspan is shearing short-term rates as if he were Edward Scissorhands at the botanical gardens.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is probably going to be the Delilah of New France, the woman who is shearing it of its upholding strength, but she is fine.
From The Black Colonel by James Milne
The stress within the bar is shearing stress, consisting, as it must, of two sets of equal tangential tractions on two sets of planes which are at right angles to each other.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
To define the rigidity, we suppose that a solid body is subjected to forces in such a way that there is shearing stress within it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various
