Sentence examples for shaved from inspiring English sources

The word "shaved" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use the word "shaved" to refer to an action of removing something, such as hair, from a surface and usually means to use a razor to do so. For example, "He shaved his beard off last week."

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shaved

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Not content with its existing roles as pub of choice for Generation Preload, mid-week curry house, and makeshift community centre, JD Wetherspoon is looking to corner the breakfast market, with price cuts (a traditional breakfast will have 40p shaved off its price, while coffee with free refills is dropping from £1.15 to 99p) and an expanded morning menu.

The truth, revealed through a fun before/after gif, was rather underwhelming, as it transpired that Vogue had basically covered her boobs, shaved a little off her hips and popped her through a filter.

Tansey had another free-kick before half-time that shaved the crossbar but Inverness were forced to go in at the break level.

A local wildlife lover recently tweeted a photograph that suggests the common has undergone a close encounter with a scalpel: a wildflower meadow has been shaved like a football pitch.

Also on the premises was a white-bearded wildebeest which the park staff christened Wiggins last August because of its fine facial hair, although the Olympic champion has, of course, now shaved off his legendary sideburns.

A car stops and a window slides down, revealing a monk with a shaved head and grey robes.

Bailey, who shaved her eyebrows off in one episode, watched it back and has been really inspired this year to crack on and get really top grades.

Gordon Brown did it with his pension changes, while George Osborne shaved £11bn off the annual welfare bill by changing the uprating from RPI to CPI in 2011.

The defence budget will be shaved by £500m, but the Treasury said this would not lead to equipment cuts and that the 2% Nato spending pledge would be met.

However, for Monkey the most historic aspect of the royal tour was the fact that Standard proprietor Evgeny Lebedev had shaved off his beard.

Ever since Sarah Bernhardt brought her limp to the first appearance of Elizabeth on screen in 1912, on a leg that would later be amputated, every film about Elizabeth has based its publicity campaign on the premise that an actor has suffered a deep degradation of the body (Flora Robson donned a fake nose, Bette Davis shaved her head).

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