undress
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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
“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
Before she left the hospital, Ms. García said she was told to undress for an examination.
From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2021
“Hush up, Jason. How can buzzards get in where Damuddy is. Father wouldn’t let them. Would you let a buzzard undress you. Hush up, now.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“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
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
Behind the curtain of biography, betrayal and striving, “Fosse/Verdon” undresses into a story about haunted people, a pair of artists inexorably pushed by past abuses and the fear of failure they produced.
From Salon ● Apr. 7, 2019
She starts taking out books and her computer from her bag before she even undresses.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
"I got undressed and went outside to wash myself."
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
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
She ran to the garden and got a big pan of earth, while Aunt Polly took Charley into the house and undressed him.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Duke getting notice, came running undrest to lament his fate, saying, Alas, Sir! what is the matter?
From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie
Keep your undrest, familiar style for strangers, but respect your friend.
From The Golden Link of Friendship by Various
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
She lay comfortably enough, but had a suspicion that the place was not over clean, and was glad to find herself not undrest.
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald
Enter Leticia and Phillis softly, undrest, with a Box.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Montague Summers
Patients may also feel distressed about undressing and undergoing manual therapy with a provider they don’t fully trust, which can make it hard to make progress.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Where “Ghost World” was concerned with its own quirky hipness and “Paris” with undressing its women, Park’s “Shortcomings” feels immediate and personal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
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
The witness recalled seeing the pair run down some steps to the riverbank before partially undressing and jumping in.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2021
Sticky had stepped into a shower stall without undressing and was trying to grip the faucet handle, but his slimy hand kept slipping off.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
