- present tense form of shear (3rd person singular).
shears
Example Sentences
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Police recovered a garden edger from Manufactum in one of the storage boxes next to other spades, trowels and garden shears.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
I found the most beautiful, and still-sharp, Japanese sewing shears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
That means buying fresh lobsters from your local market, boiling them and using kitchen shears to slice their shells from head to tail.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2024
“I can’t imagine how frightened those horses must have been,” Brad said as he cropped the grass tightly around the marble stone with garden shears.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
He wore a heard that had been cut square across the bottom with shears and he had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an informed notion of their appearance.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
