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Example sentences for "shaving"

Lexicographically close words:
shavelings; shaven; shaver; shavers; shaves; shavings; shawl; shawled; shawls; shay
  1. His valet let drop a discreet word while shaving him.

  2. While our professors were shaving off their moustaches, our father was disappearing from Neuilly.

  3. Whereupon the schoolroom was at once turned into a barber's shop, where a general shaving was performed, with the inevitable change of appearance resulting there-from, which increased the alarm of the individuals operated upon tenfold.

  4. In the mean time, the teacher went on shaving the handle smooth and rounding the ends.

  5. Flynn finished shaving Amidon, who also left, and finally he was left alone in the shop with Carroll, who arose and approached the chair.

  6. I do most of the shaving for father when he's at home, and all when he's out.

  7. She was thrilling still to the memory of his greeting kiss, its fresh odour of shaving soap and witch hazel, and the clean touch of his smooth-shaven cheek.

  8. Una pulled out the shaving and put in a peppermint.

  9. A trifle too short and a shaving too lean, But a nice young man as ever was seen," murmured Bob.

  10. Shaving is the most melancholy, and to many people the most laborious of labours.

  11. Shaving soap should be made at home, it seems, and the mystery of its manufacture is here disclosed.

  12. The energy of the British character, our zeal for individual enterprise, makes us a self-shaving race; the Latin peoples are economical, but they do not grudge paying for an easy shave.

  13. Shaving requires a combination of qualities which rarely meet in one amateur.

  14. I'd rather have my face slashed by you than be shaved by the most careful, conscientious and silent barber in all Christendom, but shaving is a matter of much gravity.

  15. Upon one end he left as large a head as the sapling would allow, and this, after shaving it into the fashion of a spear-blade, he had plunged into the fire until it had begun to char.

  16. Eastern Churches, which consists in shaving or cutting part of the hair of the head as a sign of the dedication of the person to the special service of God, and commonly to the public ministry of religion.

  17. Jose came back from the city, his eyes glittering with pride; he'd found Gerald's room at the Club quite undisturbed, and brought him a complete change of clothes and some shaving tackle.

  18. For putting my hair a little in order, and shaving me, I was forced to pay him a shilling.

  19. It was Sunday, and I went with my landlord to a barber, on whose shop was written "Shaving for a penny.

  20. The shaving and the kick might fittingly have been suppressed with dignity added to the picture of stern Wamba on horseback.

  21. One hardly understands why the shaving and flogging should have been ordered, since appropriation and expulsion ought to have sufficed.

  22. Don't you mind me shaving you in the Sherman House in Geecago, you was a customer of mine.

  23. I procured a razor and shaving materials, and performed that operation for myself, as I did not care to excite curiosity by exhibiting my half-shaved face to any more inquisitive barbers.

  24. He was shaving at the time, and this information came in brief and broken relays, suited to a performance of that sort.

  25. I couldn't think, when I read that letter, what in the nation the man meant, but shaving somehow has a tendency to release thought, and just now it all came to me.

  26. One Blessing We are a rough lot out here, and washing and shaving are things of the past.

  27. It contained, amongst numerous useless things, two sticks of shaving soap (scented).

  28. Next for Shaving One daring thing I saw on the Aisne was done by a man of the Buffs.

  29. Brent's tooth brush, comb, shaving outfit, and mirror he made into a pack which he carried to the sled, returning a moment later with a brand new outfit of clothing.

  30. He finished shaving and, as he was about to turn from the wash stand paused, and thrusting his face close to the mirror, subjected it to careful scrutiny.

  31. The point of the tool is seen in the engraving, with the spiral shaving which it cuts falling down from it.

  32. You wash your face on your non-shaving day, and on your shaving day you let the shave take the place of the wash.

  33. To begin the shaving process, you secure a basin full or a tin helmet full of water--such water as the countryside affords.

  34. Also, if you neglected to import your shaving soap from the States and had to buy it over here, it may mean that you are out of luck on lather.

  35. L) The pressure of the chip or shaving upon the cutting surface of the tool.

  36. How sound is the effort to meet it by shaving a priest's head or obliging him to grow a beard, putting him into canonicals, drilling him and regimenting him, so as to make him into a mere type.

  37. A beard which I had worn in the East, for purposes of disguise, I shaved off; and because the skin was whiter where the hair had grown than elsewhere, I found it necessary after shaving to powder my face heavily.

  38. Even the proprietors of the extensive shaving saloon looked uncommonly good-natured, though it was not prudent for them to rebuke the ambition of the prospective customer.

  39. André Maggimore, one of the journeyman barbers in the extensive shaving saloon of Cutts & Stropmore, which was situated near the Plutonian temples of State Street, in the city of Boston.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bit; butt; chip; chunk; clip; clipping; collop; crumb; cut; cutting; dandruff; dollop; end; flake; flock; fragment; gruel; hunk; lath; lump; modicum; moiety; morsel; paper; paring; particle; piece; rail; rake; rasher; scale; scoop; scrap; scurf; shadow; shard; shaving; shiver; shred; skeleton; slat; slice; slip; sliver; snack; snatch; snip; soup; splinter; stitch; streak; stump; tatter; vein; wafer