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
It looked desolate and black — destroyed businesses, block after block of homes burned to the ground, the mountains behind denuded and black as coal.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
So, in 1934, as Depression-era dust storms darkened the skies over the Great Plains, worsened by overgrazing that denuded grasslands, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Taylor Grazing Act, named for the lawmaker.
From Salon • Dec. 4, 2025
The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025
They then took turns jumping on the denuded box and became so absorbed in breaking it into bits that they forgot all about the string hanging out of the window.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
