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undress

[uhn-dres] / ʌnˈdrɛs /


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Butt or buck, the Lakers are showing that they can undress a defense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025

They further claim that, once in the home, the men were told to undress in the kitchen, and then to warm their hands with hot water or on a radiator.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

Jude does undress, we see a body disfigured by scars.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

“I had to undress to my underwear for a short period, it was very uncomfortable. They did not want to let me use the bathroom, for example.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 4, 2023

He didn't even undress in front of his mother anymore.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda

“Part of what the motion does is it undresses what you’re in, so it forces your hand a little bit,” McDermott said.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

The letter’s flipped position within the word “bar” undresses the long-accepted expectation when a person wants to eat, drink and watch a game in a restaurant.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022

It’s only when Agnes undresses that persona — in a calculated and tense final scene reminiscent of the imbroglio in the recent piece “Bad Art Friend” — that the narrator can see her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2021

Now, he pulls straight into the garage, undresses there, stuffs his uniform into the washing machine, disinfects his equipment and then heads straight for the shower before touching anyone.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020

She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.

From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi

A nurse asks me to get undressed from the waist up and put on a gown with the opening in front.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026

Of course, the suggestion was unserious but it usefully if frontally undressed a reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

"We will carefully assess these changes to make sure they effectively protect citizens in the EU," European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in a statement, which followed sharp criticism over the nonconsensual undressed images.

From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026

Over the first course, an entirely undressed salad, we scanned QR codes to check out evidence and start piecing the puzzle together.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

Yossarian moved listlessly into his own room, undressed and went to sleep.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The chief was eating an undrest onion, and seated on an old table, dangling his legs underneath, with a vacant thoughtlessness of manner, which their abrupt intrusion somewhat dissipated.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish

Tho' sometimes rude, unpolish'd and undrest His Sentence flows, more careless than the rest.

From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb

Enter Leticia and Phillis softly, undrest, with a Box.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers

Keep your undrest, familiar style    For strangers, but respect your friend, Her most, whose matrimonial smile    Is and asks honour without end.

From Angel in the House by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore

She was soon undrest; for she had no jewels to deposit in their caskets, nor fine laces to fold with the nicest exactness.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

The first step requires Ilana to change into a robe, undressing on top of pads placed on the floor so each item of clothing can be packaged into separate bags and collected as evidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026

A student movement organisation first published the video of the arrest, reporting that Ms Daryaei had an altercation with security agents over not wearing a headscarf, leading to her undressing during the scuffle.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024

Rapp testified at a deposition that there was no kissing, no undressing, no reaching under clothes and no sexualized statements or innuendo during an encounter that lasted no more than two minutes, the judge said.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2022

Arians said after the game that wide receiver Antonio Brown is "no longer a Buc" after undressing on the field before storming off to the locker room during the third quarter.

From Fox News ● Jan. 2, 2022

People—grown-ups—hovered over me constantly, touching me, feeling me, dressing and undressing me, eyeing me, poking me, bathing me.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith




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