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Example sentences for "shaven"

Lexicographically close words:
shauen; shave; shaved; shaveling; shavelings; shaver; shavers; shaves; shaving; shavings
  1. There was a sudden savage roughness in the voice, a sterner set to the shaven upper lip and straight mouth, though he still spoke low.

  2. But despite his shaven face and easy manner, she reasoned, he did not resemble an actor, but rather an acclimatized foreigner.

  3. He had a shrewd, intelligent face, and his shaven head, surmounted by the inevitable isicoco or ring, rendered his high broad forehead almost commandingly lofty.

  4. His shaven pate was crowned with the usual black shiny ring, and he wore round his loins the usual mutya of cats' tails.

  5. Small black felt caps of conical shape covered their shaven heads; they all wore wooden shoes, and yet made a noise as of old iron like driving chariots.

  6. My beard had grown like weeds until I had a three-inch brush on my face, with the exception of my shaven upper lip.

  7. His clean-shaven skin had a pinkish freshness and forceful virility.

  8. Inside stood a great number of red Lamas, with shaven heads, and long woollen tunics.

  9. The latter dress, and have clean-shaven heads like their superiors.

  10. His clean-shaven head unmistakably showed that he, too, was a Lama.

  11. The clean-shaven man was a lag,' said Mike.

  12. To my surprise I found Casteno, crouching on his knees also, in front of the fire, which threw a powerful rosy glare on his clean-shaven features.

  13. They went out together, and had not sought her long, when they discovered her pacing perturbedly up and down a broad walk of closely-shaven grass, inclosed on both sides by a tall impenetrable fence of evergreens.

  14. He may have, only the moment before, shaven and groomed himself with the utmost care, still he is nearly ready to join the ranks of the down-and-outs.

  15. We did not care; we knew we were The Devil's Own Brigade; And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade.

  16. In one scene he is the shaven mullah abstractedly mumbling his prayers while he intently prepares his food.

  17. They were most of them young men, clean-shaven with neat moustaches, lightly built but compact and supple, of regular features, cast very much in a type.

  18. The man shall be shaven all but the place of the spot: and he shall be shut up other seven days.

  19. The form of the closely-shaven skull and the features of the strong face, wrinkled by age, have been reproduced by the sculptor with unsurpassable fidelity.

  20. Jim passed his hand thoughtfully over his clean-shaven chin.

  21. He passed his hand over his clean-shaven chin, a trick he had inherited from his father, and surveyed her steadily from under meditative brows.

  22. His face had the distinction which comes of being clean-shaven in our bearded times.

  23. When I came near him I saw that he had a clean-shaven face, and he wore a soft hat that seemed large for his close-cropped head; he had on a sack coat buttoned to the throat, and of one dark color with his loose trousers.

  24. He looks about thirty-five, has a clean-shaven intelligent face, and is dressed in a dark tweed suit.

  25. His grey hair is bald on the top, and he is clean-shaven except for a hint of whisker.

  26. Rather under the middle size, of compact, close buttoned-up figure, with ample dark hair falling loosely over his close-shaven face.

  27. What were preaching and benevolent intention, where shaven superstition was inculcating the cross by its weight alone, and bearded ferocity desolated with the sword what the cross could spare?

  28. Pure minds and magnanimous intentions went in the same ships with adventurers, diseased soldiers, cold and superstitious men of business, and shaven monks with their villanous low brows and thin inquisitorial smile.

  29. So he made his toilet with care, and put his best hat on to hide his shaven crown.

  30. The keeper whipped off Alfred's cap and showed his shaven crown.

  31. The fire showed his round figure, short but well muscled, and the boyish petulance of his shaven lip.

  32. The light shone on his buckskin fringes, his dejected shoulders, and his clean-shaven youthful face.

  33. A man was standing over him, a man past middle age, short and broad in figure, whose clean-shaven face directed attention to his protruding jaw.

  34. At the time of his death Sir Horace Fewbanks was 58 years of age, but since death the grey bristles had grown so rapidly through his clean-shaven face that he looked much older.

  35. He looked a little careworn, as though with sleepless nights, but his strong, clean-shaven face was as resolute as ever, and betrayed nothing of the mental agony which he endured.

  36. He proudly raised his round head with its close-cropped hair and shaven cheeks, on which the chin-straps of his helmet had worn hard calloused lines.


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