undress
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“I think we achieved it, but along the way, we had to undress the character’s successes and failures, many of which had consequences in his life,” Gómez Fernandez says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
“I had to undress my children to their underwear only,” said Mr. Abu Hatab, 33.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024
When she’d get home from a long day, she’d undress outside and sprint to the shower, worried about exposing her wife and two children to the coronavirus.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
“Hush up, Jason. How can buzzards get in where Damuddy is. Father wouldn’t let them. Would you let a buzzard undress you. Hush up, now.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Part of what the motion does is it undresses what you’re in, so it forces your hand a little bit,” McDermott said.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
It’s only when Agnes undresses that persona — in a calculated and tense final scene reminiscent of the imbroglio in the recent piece “Bad Art Friend” — that the narrator can see her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021
Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019
He undresses himself using a gadget Devon created from a basket, weights and hooks.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2018
She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
A nurse asks me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown with the opening in front.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
"We will carefully assess these changes to make sure they effectively protect citizens in the EU," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement, which followed sharp criticism over the nonconsensual undressed images.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
Earlier in November, video went viral on social media capturing the moment the woman, named by BBC Persian as Ahoo Daryaei, undressed on a university campus before being forcibly detained.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
I got undressed and I looked at myself, and I began to cry.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Languid, he lit, and left his Brigliador To a discreet attendant; one undrest His limbs, one doffed the golden spurs he wore, And one bore off, to clean, his iron vest.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
In our Chamber, found her alreadie half undrest, a reading of her Bible; sayd, "Father tooke your briefe Good-nighte amisse."
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
The chief was eating an undrest onion, and seated on an old table, dangling his legs underneath, with a vacant thoughtlessness of manner, which their abrupt intrusion somewhat dissipated.
From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish
She was soon undrest; for she had no jewels to deposit in their caskets, nor fine laces to fold with the nicest exactness.
From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding
Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your friend.
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
The first step requires Ilana to change into a robe, undressing on top of pads placed on the floor so each item of clothing can be packaged into separate bags and collected as evidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The witness recalled seeing the pair run down some steps to the riverbank before partially undressing and jumping in.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021
The second goal came off a Vince Dunn turnover in his own end, with Marchessault later finding himself alone in front of Grubauer and undressing the goalie with some nifty deke moves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
Young had returned home from work and was undressing for bed when police barged in, the AP adds.
From Fox News ● Aug. 13, 2021
After a time he got out, walked down to the beach, and waded into the lake without undressing.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
