unclothe

Example Sentences

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With some actors, words clothe feelings; with Jones, feelings unclothe words so that joy, rage, wonder and sadness radiate nakedly through the theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

This with him was to unclothe himself of his true strength.

From Robert Burns by Shairp, John Campbell

Other men, again, possibly unclothe themselves of some practices, but they put on new clothing, they reform some passages for fear of censure, or shame, or such like.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

How came so many men of such different races and nations of mankind to hasten to unclothe themselves of all their previous beliefs in order to adopt these fantastical fables?

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

She regarded herself with detachment as a remarkable phenomenon, and therefore she could impersonally describe her career without any of the ordinary restraints—just as a shopman might clothe or unclothe a model in his window.

From Mr. Prohack by Bennett, Arnold