stripped down
Example Sentences
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Sam Sacks highlights the author’s “rigorously achieved style, which is stripped down, dryly unsentimental and keenly attuned to the tensions present in families and friendships.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
When they got back the surrounding neighborhoods were in ruins: Trees were charred, cars were stripped down to metal frames and homes were gutted or left in ash.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026
The true magic of al limone shines when it’s stripped down to its essentials.
From Salon • Apr. 14, 2025
Some smaller reforms do retain support at Holyrood and could be passed in a stripped down version of the bill.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025
At seven twenty-five Peter vanished into his room, and reappeared at the stroke of seven-thirty, stripped down to his blue swimming trunks and a pair of tennis shoes.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
