Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Salt’s one and fourpence the raser, and that’s a deal too much to give for thee.

From The King's Daughters by Holt, Emily Sarah

Aug. 5th, after dynner the little boy, sonne to the Captayn of Rhaudnitz, hurt Arthur’s nose with a raser, not in anger but by chance wantonly.

From The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee And the Catalog of His Library of Manuscripts by Dee, John

Le philosophe est ici sans barbe aussi bien que sur plusieurs pierres grav�es; on attribuait � Aristote l'habitude de se raser, rare parmi les philosophes et convenable � un sage qui vivait � la cour.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

In 1770 the publication of Monsieur Perrel’s “Pogonotomie, ou 1’Art d’apprendre à se raser soi-même,” created a sensation among fashionable people, and enthusiasts studied self-shaving.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price