stripped

Example Sentences

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The bout was hair vs. hair; whichever billionaire lost would be stripped of their mane in the ring.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

In the decade preceding Xi, he noted, there was perhaps one such case—and even then, the official wasn’t imprisoned, but was merely stripped of privileges.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

He said the "infant sleep industry has boomed... as the support that used to be provided by the state has been stripped back."

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

She’s talked up her push to convert darkened streetlights, many of them stripped of their copper wire, to solar power.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

I never in my life stripped a garden so fast, and my feet raced each other past the depot and the Cold Sassy tree and the nine houses between Grandpa’s house and ours.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns