Sentence examples for shear from inspiring English sources

Headlines included: "Australians Are Trying to Decide if It's OK to Swear at Sheep" (Time): "Aussie Sheep Station Under Fire For Cursing At Animals" (Huffington Post); "How dare ewe: shear rudeness against sheep" (Nine News); "Shearer under fire for verbally abusing sheep" (The Times UK) and "Inequality on the rise as sheep abuse rears its ugly head" (The Australian).

Who knows whether Shaun White, having failed to win a medal in Sochi, is now ruing his decision, a little over a year ago, to shear off his trademark red tresses for charity.

One of the most impressive aspects of the whole operation was the shear scale of the practicalities of getting 23,000 personnel to Oman, moving them up the length of the country, supplying them and then getting them out.

While turbine blades made from Hyfil had all the tensile strength, and more, to withstand the centrifugal forces of a big fan engine at full power, their shear strength left much to be desired.

This can shear the armour-piercing spike into bits, which are then less likely to pierce the underlying armour.The Israel Defence Forces, shaken by their losses during the Yom Kippur war, developed an early but effective explosive-reactive armour that kept tank losses exceptionally light during the 1982 Lebanon war.

Shaking ketchup invokes one of those elements: shear thinning.

With few dividing shear-walls to resist the sideways forces unleashed by the earthquake, the "soft" ground-floors collapsed, bringing the residential floors above crashing down.

This flows like a liquid when poured yet, if hit with a spoon, reacts like a solid.Researchers at the University of Delaware developed shear-thickening fluids for use as liquid armour almost ten years ago.

If the aircraft is flying at a low altitude, the sudden tailwind can rob it of lift and cause a crash.In this section Udder confusion Paved with good intentions Things that go bump in your flight Pie in the sky Reprints Related topics Transportation Air travelWind-shear is detected by transmitting a stream of radio pulses in front of the aircraft.

Two of the aircraft are research craft fitted with a standard off-the-shelf wind-shear radar (one made by AlliedSignal, the other by Rockwell-Collins).

An alarm sounds if the characteristic sign of wind-shear, which is a headwind with a tailwind behind it, is detected.