nakedness

Example Sentences

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Eve then offers the fruit to Adam, and, having both sinned, they realize their nakedness, are ashamed and make clothing.

From Salon • May 17, 2026

The results are childlike at times — parts of “La Noche” and “Lo_Divino” sound like nursery rhymes — while the nakedness of “Volvieron” brims with a solemn, ageless kind of grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

Maternity wear is part of our wear-once fast-fashion culture, but nakedness pretends to timelessness.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

“It is inconceivable. He had nakedness, but I imagine was born with his clothes on and his hair powdered and made a stately bow on his first appearance in the world.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2023

Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin