denuded

Example Sentences

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The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

The most notable began in 1978, when foresters began hand-replanting mangroves at the mouth of the Saigon River in Cần Giờ forest, an area that had been completely denuded.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

The plant can grow rapidly in the denuded landscape, sometimes shooting up to its maximum height of nearly 10 feet within a year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2025

A heavy storm following a blaze can sweep massive amounts of sediment and charred material from the denuded hillsides into the water they inhabit — a death trap for creatures that can’t flee.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025

The trees around are denuded, as if they’ve been burnt; webbing sheathes their trunks.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood