unclad

Example Sentences

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As for Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people.

From Time Magazine Archive

I flung the warm shawl over her, and drew the edges tight round her neck, for I dreaded lest she should get some deadly chill from the night air, unclad as she was.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Over the left shoulder and across the otherwise unclad breast of the aged diplomatist glistened a patent leather belt bearing a brass plate with the arms of Netherlands under the inscription, “Sultan of Sambir.”

From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Conrad, Joseph

Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various

The piercing blasts quite shrivelled up our poor unclad conductors, who crouched in an inert mass round log fires which they made.

From Southern Arabia by Bent, Theodore