stripped

Example Sentences

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His pictures, deemed subversive, were stripped from German museums, and he and his family fled to Switzerland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026

The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026

Economists led by Shruti Mishra divided out consumption by household income, but importantly, stripped out the essentials of housing, utilities and healthcare.

From MarketWatch • Jul. 7, 2026

Some apartment blocks are stripped of their facades.

From Barron's • Jul. 6, 2026

The pent up horror, grief and humiliation of a lifetime—half a century—was being stripped from me.”

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler