SHAVE in a Sentence

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61 example sentences for SHAVE, such as:

1. The nurse washed and shaved him.
2. Please demagnetize the iron shavings.
3. None of them had shaved for three days.
4. He took a bath and shaved before dinner.
5. He had a shave and a bath before leaving.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHAVE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shave
 v.  touch the surface of lightly; remove the beard or other body hair from
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  There is not even a toilet glass on my table, and I had to get the little shaving glass from my bag before I could either shave or brush my hair.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case or the bottom of the shaving-pot, which is fortunately of metal.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He had made two attempts to shave but his hand had been so unsteady that he had been obliged to desist.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE BOARDING HOUSE
5  A narrow shave; but a miss is as good as a mile.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
6  Well, here she comes, and we said she was going to try and shave us; but she didn't seem to be sheering off a bit.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
7  Well; I shall rent a room in some respectable house, wear a decent coat, shave every day, and go and read the papers in a cafe.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 64. The Beggar.
8  We can only shave our heads for them and wring the tears from our cheeks.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
9  He took them out of their cases, and told us, that in his own country his practice was to shave his beard with one of these, and cut his meat with the other.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
10  He let her shave him nearly every day: her face near his, her eyes so very concentrated, watching that she did it right.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
11  And he let her shave him or sponge all his body as if he were a child, really as if he were a child.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
12  He ordered my husband to shave his forehead as a soldier, and our turn hadn't come, and it is against the law, my husband being a married man.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT IV
13  They got me down and shaved me, and it's a wonder my head didn't come off along with the beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  He was freshly barbered, shaved and massaged and he was sober, but his eyes were bloodshot and his face puffy from drink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
15  None of them had shaved for three days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  He had a shave and a bath before leaving.
2  His back can shave the counter in passing.
3  You can get a really close, smooth shave with this new double-bladed razor.
4  He took a bath and shaved before dinner.
5  He had spiky light brown hair, shaved at the sides and gelled on top.
6  The nurse washed and shaved him.
7  She's already shaved four seconds off the national record for the mile.
8  Please demagnetize the iron shavings.
9  The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.