in the buff
Example Sentences
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Wildebeest appeared as black dots in the buff.
From New York Times • Apr. 17, 2023
The sport, now among the Olympics’ most beloved events, was born millennia ago, as young men trained for war in the buff.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2021
However, the growing presence of such ideas in the buff literature would be one of the defining characteristics of seventies’ research.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2017
The Vermont Historical Society has set out to document the 1970s, when the state’s counterculturists took over abandoned farmsteads, gardened in the buff and organized food co-ops, crafts studios and communes.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2015
They did not row in the buff, as the weather was too cold, but all wore thin white shirts, with "'Umpty-eight" lettered in blue on the breast.
From Frank Merriwell at Yale by Standish, Burt L.
