denuded
Example Sentences
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Food, initially plentiful after the Germans denuded the farms of occupied Europe, became scarcer and worse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 10, 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
Obsessively, in the way a person worries a rip deep in a pocket, she now reached up under the floppy hat to feel her denuded scalp for the thirtieth or fortieth time.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
