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
• Noonan, clean-shaven and steady on his feet, gives a smile to the camera.
  — Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
• By 2023, the sideburns are gone, and Guthrie’s cheeks are clean-shaven down to his jawbone.
  — Rachel Clarke, CNN, 23 Sep. 2024
• Rafi was clean-shaven and looked young, sporting a blue tie that clashed with the bright red background.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 22 Dec. 2024
• Loftin, who also sported a clean-shaven look, has four hits in his last three games.
  — Kansas City Star, 9 July 2025
• 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
• This isn't the first time that Elordi has switched up his normally clean-shaven look.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
• Diddy, clean-shaven and gray-haired, hugged and shook hands with his attorneys.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 5 May 2025
• Gonzo was clean: clean fingernails, clean-shaven, clean white shirt.
  — Martín Espada, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• Josh donned a brown shirt, shorts, and sunglasses, and sported a mustache and beard — a change from his clean-shaven look.
  — Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• De Bruyne is fit, clean-shaven, and small in stature, with a fanboy’s enthusiasm for his job.
  — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
• The New York Yankees announced Friday that their players no longer must be clean-shaven.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 22 Feb. 2025
• In place of these things, we are given a clean-shaven crew of fit, diverse and beautiful people.
  — Craig Michel, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• The Prince is clearly a fan of his new look, growing out his beard after going clean-shaven at Balmoral.
  — Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The clean-shaven look was complemented by clean-shaven facial hair.
  — Robyn Merrett, StyleCaster, 30 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Bateman was first spotted with the fuller look back in January but was back to clean-shaven just as the air turned colder at the end of September.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024
• He's also known for his clean-shaven look, making his Wednesday appearance a new look for him.
  — Charna Flam, People.com, 22 May 2025
• In the midst of the press tour for his upcoming Netflix series Nobody Wants This, the 44-year-old actor debuted a new clean-shaven look.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2024
• With each question they were presented with two photos: one of a bearded man and another clean-shaven.
  — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 May 2025
• 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
• Most striking of all, Orlok now has a mustache, a departure from his original, clean-shaven look.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 25 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Brunettes, blonds, mustached, clean-shaven, my patio-bar dates don’t seem to get it, and their answers have alarmed me — their apathy almost as alarming as outright hate.
  — Hannah Benson, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2025
• Cue the flashbacks, showing a clean-shaven Grace teaching middle school students before being approached about serving on a space mission to save the world.
  — ArsTechnica, 30 June 2025
• Now, an untold number of cops — the NYPD could not provide statistics — have said their religious rights would be violated were they forced to go clean-shaven.
  — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
• Last week, in a court appearance that lasted all of 10 minutes, a clean-shaven Wallen pleaded guilty in the chair-throwing case to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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