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How to pronounce shears in English?

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Type Words
Type of scissors, pair of scissors
Has types clipper, tinsnips, pruning shears, snips, thinning shears
Derivation shear

Examples of shears

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Use hedge shears for formal hedges, hand shears and loppers for informal hedges.
From the sltrib.com
Participants should bring gardening gloves and pruning shears if they have them.
From the charlotteobserver.com
But when he took up shears, his moves could make a woman think certain thoughts.
From the npr.org
Frayed edges look very stylish or you can finish the edges with pinking shears.
From the thenewstribune.com
Authorities said Garcia-Gomez had cutting shears, water buckets and a garden hoe.
From the dailyherald.com
Though Alex spent his childhood with pruning shears in hand, he wanted to wander.
From the sfgate.com
Picking begins at 9 a.m., and participants must bring their own pruning shears.
From the kentucky.com
Shears today has the same job with the same duties and same schedule as before.
From the al.com
Today, underground machines ply the coal seams with enormous computerized shears.
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More examples
  • Large scissors with strong blades
  • The Shears (Hada plebeja) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe.
  • To see shears in your dream, denotes that you will become miserly and disagreeable in your dealings. To see them broken, you will lose friends and standing by your eccentric demeanor.
  • Large scissors used for cutting up mill-boards.
  • A scissor-like tool that is used to cut, trim, and shape hot glass.
  • Used for trimming the torch wicking and made of iron
  • Large scissors for clipping the wool from sheep.
  • In Euro-American forestry, a piece of heavy equipment which uses hydraulics to snip trees for harvest in capital-intensive mass-production forestry.
  • The structure on the submarine that supported the periscopes and radar antenna as well as held two lookout stations.