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Example sentences for "razor"

Lexicographically close words:
raze; razed; razing; razon; razones; razorback; razorbills; razors; razzia; razzias
  1. Take care, my friend; your razor almost touched my nose; you will end by taking off a piece, and that would destroy the charm of my physiognomy.

  2. The barber shrugged his shoulders impatiently, and again approached the blade of his razor to Chaudoreille's nose.

  3. And I knew that a freshly honed and freshly strapped razor won't cut, but after strapping on the hand as a final operation, it will cut.

  4. Then it seemed plain--to wit: my hand can't give a razor an edge, it can only smooth and refine an edge that has already been given.

  5. JEAN [Takes razor and puts it in her hand].

  6. JULIE [She takes up razor from table and makes gestures saying] This?

  7. A razor was lying by his side with its blade notched, and public opinion was strongly divided as to whether he had committed suicide or had been murdered.

  8. To show the wave to be cultivated and to show the suspension of a razor the light does shine directly.

  9. The razor is partly opened and the end of the blade fixed into the wood of the pencil about an inch or two above the point, in the position and at about the angles shown in the illustration, Fig.

  10. Illustration] A development of the last experiment may be made with a basting ladle and a razor or folding pocket-knife.

  11. With the shaving brush in one hand and the razor in the other he delivered an oration.

  12. In order to emphasize it and have time to think and enforce a new idea, he would apply the brush and the razor vigorously, then pause and resume.

  13. He went methodically about his preparations; he took down his tin basin from a peg, prepared his soap, then stropped his razor on the long bit of leather that was fastened to his girdle.

  14. Would that Clavileno were here, and on his back Malambruno himself; for I am confident no razor would more easily shave your ladyships' beards, than my sword shall shave off Malambruno's head from his shoulders!

  15. Some sickles of the usual type, fish-hooks, and a few of the socketed razor knives.

  16. One of the most interesting objects from this station is a razor in its wooden case (No.

  17. And meanwhile this new razor was perfect.

  18. Three long cuts where the razor had slipped and skipped.

  19. Writing to his brother, he says, "Look with contempt on the razor and flint of the famous Attius.

  20. Upon trial, the razor passed through with the greatest ease.

  21. Also the comb and scissors and razor that lie between the two ears of Trwyth the boar, so that I may arrange my hair for the wedding.

  22. And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his knights, and at last it came to the fight with Trwyth the board, to obtain the comb and the scissors and the razor that lay between his ears.

  23. Thither Arthur followed after him with his knights, and if it had been hard to win the razor and the scissors, the struggle for the comb was fiercer still, but at length Arthur prevailed, and the boar was driven into the sea.

  24. There three knights caught his feet unawares and plunged him into the water, while one snatched the razor from him, and another seized the scissors.

  25. A good old proverb tells us that "One should not take a razor to cut a block:" the razor is soon spoiled, and the block is not so well cut as it would be with a hatchet.

  26. She told me to get undressed and go to bed--which I did, after she had carefully unpacked my belongings, removing my razor and my nail-file.

  27. I opened my eyes to see Arthurjean holding a stained safety-razor blade in her hand and staring at me, white-faced, as the blood trickled from my finger-tips.

  28. I had now not a doubt but that the razor was intended for my throat; yet the terrific fascination which had locked all my powers so long, still continued to bind me fast.

  29. A slight inaccuracy saved me from instant death; the blow fell short, the point of the razor grazing my throat.

  30. The razor which had inflicted the wound was found under his body.

  31. He went upstairs on the jump and got his razor out.

  32. It would never do, he was seen to intimate, and when the other miner portrayed helplessness a new package was unwrapped and a safety razor revealed to his shocked gaze.

  33. When he returned after half--an-hour's rather nervous walk up another street, the departing miner was clean shaven and one might note the new razor glittering on the low bench beside the battered tin basin.

  34. He looked carefully at his collar, wondering how many days he would be able to keep it looking like a fresh collar, and he regretted that he had not brought his safety-razor to this new home.

  35. The razor used by the miner should in all reason have been found, but there was neither that nor any other.

  36. When it was time for him to produce his razor he faltered.

  37. He swept his razor around several times with a free-handed, blood-curdling swoop of his arm.

  38. He had lost the razor edge of pitching perfection.

  39. He ground it until it was almost razor sharp.

  40. I got no farther, for flinging down his razor my father rose in a towering rage.

  41. The crowd at first followed in silence; at last a cry of "Mercy," was heard: but the falling of the National Razor cut short the appeal.

  42. The lunatic with the razor was after her.

  43. All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head; until the days be fulfilled in the which he separateth himself unto the Lord, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

  44. And no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb.

  45. Chopping-blocks with a razor is a common illustration of the employment of a subtle ingenuity, upon coarse and uninteresting topics.

  46. The first stanza ran thus-- "Strap that razor so keen!

  47. Pliny assigns a very strange cause, why aciem in cultris tonsorum hebetescere--why the edge of a barber's razor is sometimes blunted.

  48. I have often put my razor down, regretting, that my beard did not spread over a larger area; so keenly and agreeably has the instrument performed its work.

  49. My razor is very capricious; so, I suppose, is everybody's razor.

  50. Some persons suppose the razor to be an instrument, of comparatively modern invention, and barbers to have sprung up, at farthest, within the Christian era.

  51. To cause a razor to pass upon the beard seems to mean something very different from shaving, in the common sense of that word.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "razor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.