disrobe
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I’m a fairly cerebral person and a lot of the work you have to do is disrobe yourself of reason, instincts, caution and understand it with what Ezra Pound called your “belly-mind.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Or Max Scherzer defiantly beginning to disrobe during an in-game check by umpires?
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2022
“The fact that I have to prove I don’t have tattoos on my upper body, disrobe, quite frankly is a little humiliating,” Rhambo told The Times on Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Pell would only have gone to the sacristy to disrobe, and that was always done with the help of at least one other cleric.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2019
Dense foliage overshadows it, a little thinner now that the hand of autumn has begun to disrobe the trees.
From Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Sue Tilley was 35 years old and working in a London employment office when she disrobed and let British artist Lucian Freud paint her in the nude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
As his teammates around him disrobed and walked to the showers, Herbert sat in front of his locker and stared at the ground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
Cameras are likely to pan away as they did when Queen Elizabeth was disrobed of her cloak and jewellery during her televised coronation in 1953.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023
He headed western U.S. congregations but was disrobed in a church trial last year after officials concluded he had mishandled funds.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
They had bathing trunks on their boat, and, having found what looked like a good spot, a little cove with a sandy beach, they disrobed and were soon sporting in the water.
From The Ocean Wireless Boys And The Naval Code by Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis)
But the disrobing has other benefits: A thick, sour miasma of pig excrement engulfs me as I make my way inside, and I’m glad I’ve left my clothes behind.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023
She delivered again, face stripped of makeup and disrobing from her couture to wear a simple black t-shirt and ripped jeans to perform "Hold My Hand" from "Top Gun."
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2023
Later that day, the fresh tape on her temples would unstick in time for the scrubbing, disrobing, and de-wigging that must take place before Sarah can go home to her wife.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2019
Although those encounters are described with raw detail, the narrator’s deliberate disrobing of his own psyche feels even more intimate.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
He felt that even in speaking in that way he would be indicating how hopeless he felt, thereby disrobing his soul to more shame.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
