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undress

[uhn-dres] / ʌnˈdrɛs /


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Butt or buck, the Lakers are showing that they can undress a defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

“I had to undress my children to their underwear only,” said Mr. Abu Hatab, 33.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

The military said it makes detainees undress to search for explosives, bringing detainees into Israel before releasing them back into Gaza if they’re deemed innocent.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

The next morning he helped her dress and undress her Barbie at least thirty times.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

“Part of what the motion does is it undresses what you’re in, so it forces your hand a little bit,” McDermott said.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

The letter’s flipped position within the word “bar” undresses the long-accepted expectation when a person wants to eat, drink and watch a game in a restaurant.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

She still undresses from her scrubs in the breezeway outside her home and doesn’t hug or kiss her grandmother.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2022

Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced.

From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019

She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

A nurse asks me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown with the opening in front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"We will carefully assess these changes to make sure they effectively protect citizens in the EU," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement, which followed sharp criticism over the nonconsensual undressed images.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

Daccord was noticeably upset after the loss, slamming his gear down extra hard as he undressed.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

In the bathroom, I turned on the shower, but I didn’t get undressed right away.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

Tho' sometimes rude, unpolish'd and undrest His Sentence flows, more careless than the rest.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb

She lay comfortably enough, but had a suspicion that the place was not over clean, and was glad to find herself not undrest.

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald

The Duke getting notice, came running undrest to lament his fate, saying, Alas, Sir! what is the matter?

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Falsehood more leisurely undrest, And, laying by her tawdry vest, Trick'd herself out in Truth's array, And 'cross the meadows tript away.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

She was soon undrest; for she had no jewels to deposit in their caskets, nor fine laces to fold with the nicest exactness.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

A student movement organisation first published the video of the arrest, reporting that Ms Daryaei had an altercation with security agents over not wearing a headscarf, leading to her undressing during the scuffle.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024

Where “Ghost World” was concerned with its own quirky hipness and “Paris” with undressing its women, Park’s “Shortcomings” feels immediate and personal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

The second goal came off a Vince Dunn turnover in his own end, with Marchessault later finding himself alone in front of Grubauer and undressing the goalie with some nifty deke moves.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

Young had returned home from work and was undressing for bed when police barged in, the AP adds.

From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2021

She was undressing her doll, prising the skirt off the plastic body.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie




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