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

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

John Adams, on his way to Congress, told of the defeat of the Northern army in Canada and how it was heading southward "eaten with vermin, diseased, scattered, dispirited, unclad, unfed, disgraced."

From In the Days of Poor Richard by Bacheller, Irving

But when those jealous boughs are all unclad, I then shall see the cottage of my lad: When once that tree is rooted from the hills, I'll see the house wherein my lover dwells.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes