: formed or finished by shearing
especially
: cut to uniform length
a sheared rug
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Helix also has an inventive two-cover design, with one side a soft fleece, and the other sheared microfibers—all cooling.
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Mike Richard, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
With its play on dimensions and shape, the sheared look operates almost like an instant face-lift for nearly all wearers.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
Sitting in Steve’s open garage Tuesday, gazing on a street strewn with sheared tree limbs, Paul recalled how Irma had destroyed his trailer, tossing it into a pond and rendering him homeless.
—Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
Two moments remain fixed: being introduced to Elston Howard, the first-base coach and former catcher; and not being introduced to a famously mustachioed relief pitcher, naked as a sheared sheep, on his leisurely way to the shower.
—Mark Singer, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
Or a tighter, more sheared look like Hebe ‘Red Edge,’ a variety that’s reliably hardy here, and keeps that tight form without needing to shear?
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
Lindley appears again, giggling, in a charred crater with sheared pole shards and pocked with shrapnel tunnels.
—Eric Dexheimer, ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
Recover the sheared end pieces of stone, which should be disk-shaped and sharp along the edge.
—Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
That’s when coach Bill Belichick started Brady instead of Drew Bledsoe, who was finally healthy after suffering a sheared blood vessel injury against the Jets earlier in the season.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
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Mike Richard, Men's Health, 20 Jan. 2023
With its play on dimensions and shape, the sheared look operates almost like an instant face-lift for nearly all wearers.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2022
Sitting in Steve’s open garage Tuesday, gazing on a street strewn with sheared tree limbs, Paul recalled how Irma had destroyed his trailer, tossing it into a pond and rendering him homeless.
—Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
Two moments remain fixed: being introduced to Elston Howard, the first-base coach and former catcher; and not being introduced to a famously mustachioed relief pitcher, naked as a sheared sheep, on his leisurely way to the shower.
—Mark Singer, The New Yorker, 1 June 2022
Or a tighter, more sheared look like Hebe ‘Red Edge,’ a variety that’s reliably hardy here, and keeps that tight form without needing to shear?
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2021
Lindley appears again, giggling, in a charred crater with sheared pole shards and pocked with shrapnel tunnels.
—Eric Dexheimer, ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
Recover the sheared end pieces of stone, which should be disk-shaped and sharp along the edge.
—Keith McCafferty, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2020
That’s when coach Bill Belichick started Brady instead of Drew Bledsoe, who was finally healthy after suffering a sheared blood vessel injury against the Jets earlier in the season.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
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“Sheared.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sheared. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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