How to Use clean-shaven in a Sentence

clean-shaven

adjective
  • The problem, in Grace’s view, was that his clean-shaven face was too thin.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2023
  • Clientele were desert rats, young and old, some long-haired and scruffy, some clean-shaven with cowboy hats.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Gonzo was clean: clean fingernails, clean-shaven, clean white shirt.
    Martín Espada, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • De Bruyne is fit, clean-shaven, and small in stature, with a fanboy’s enthusiasm for his job.
    WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In place of these things, we are given a clean-shaven crew of fit, diverse and beautiful people.
    Craig Michel, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Police believe the suspect is Latino, around 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a clean-shaven face and long black hair.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • One is a photo of Combs, clean-shaven and pudgy, playing his first ever live gig at a café in Boone, North Carolina, in 2012.
    Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
  • Crowe looks nothing like the priest, who was bald-headed, bespectacled and clean-shaven.
    Deepa Bharath, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Earlier photos showed him with facial hair, but he’s now described as clean-shaven and wearing a green hooded sweater.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The previously bearded fugitive is now clean-shaven and wearing a green hooded sweatshirt over a dark baseball hat, and is seen driving the white Ford van.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Doorbell video images showed Cavalcante to be now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded sweatshirt, black baseball cap, green prison pants and white shoes, police said.
    Marc Levy, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The woman appeared to be surrounded and being subdued by four officers when a fifth officer, a white man with a clean-shaven head, could be seen entering the fray to repeatedly hit her.
    Cristian Santana, NBC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • For me, the standouts were Diaz, who gives Rollie’s (goatee) erratic behavior and non-sequiturs a childlike innocence, and Medina, who locates surprising sincerity behind Jay’s (clean-shaven) deadpan seriousness.
    Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2023

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