shear
verb (used with object)
to cut (something).
was shearing
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past progressiveof shear.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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He 'picked up' in one shed where I was shearing, and we carried swags together for a couple of months.
From Over the Sliprails by Henry Lawson
He uttered not another intelligible word while he stayed with the sheep that he was shearing.
From Under the Shadow of Etna Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Giovanni Verga
I inquired of Mr M'Swat which was the liveliest time of the year, and being told it was shearing and threshing, I opened one first in November: November 1896 1st.
From My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin
A woman with a razor was shearing her eyebrows into a delicate line, and all round her forehead trimming disorderly hairs.
From Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall
Assurance of his own salvation had come to him one day when he was shearing sheep, and when, as he related often, finding himself on his knees to shear, he remained to pray.
From Darrel of the Blessed Isles by Irving Bacheller
