undress
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Butt or buck, the Lakers are showing that they can undress a defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 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
The military said it makes detainees undress to search for explosives, bringing detainees into Israel before releasing them back into Gaza if they’re deemed innocent.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
Jude does undress, we see a body disfigured by scars.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
“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
Now, he pulls straight into the garage, undresses there, stuffs his uniform into the washing machine, disinfects his equipment and then heads straight for the shower before touching anyone.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020
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
Laura and Mary were undressed, and they said their prayers and snuggled into the trundle bed.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Duke getting notice, came running undrest to lament his fate, saying, Alas, Sir! what is the matter?
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
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
I have undrest myself, and Sibby is going to comb my hair.
From Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 by Lucinda Lee Orr
Tho' sometimes rude, unpolish'd and undrest His Sentence flows, more careless than the rest.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb
Keep your undrest, familiar style For strangers, but respect your friend, Her most, whose matrimonial smile Is and asks honour without end.
From Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
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
Patients may also feel distressed about undressing and undergoing manual therapy with a provider they don’t fully trust, which can make it hard to make progress.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Rapp testified at a deposition that there was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes and no sexualized statements or innuendo during an encounter that lasted no more than two minutes, the judge said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022
The witness recalled seeing the pair run down some steps to the riverbank before partially undressing and jumping in.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021
Sticky had stepped into a shower stall without undressing and was trying to grip the faucet handle, but his slimy hand kept slipping off.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
