denuded
Example Sentences
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The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The most notable began in 1978, when foresters began hand-replanting mangroves at the mouth of the Saigon River in Cần Giờ forest, an area that had been completely denuded.
From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025
The plant can grow rapidly in the denuded landscape, sometimes shooting up to its maximum height of nearly 10 feet within a year.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025
They climbed down the steep, denuded hillside and into the park.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2025
His father’s plate is polished clean, the chicken bones denuded of cartilage and chewed to a pinkish pulp, the bay leaf and cinnamon stick as good as new.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
