He 's a thief, we must own, but how many there be That rob us less gently and fairly than he He has stripped the green leaves that were over us all, But they let in the sunshine as fast as they fall.
He took his hat and hung it up, With slow but earnest air; He stripped his coat from off his back, And placed it on a chair.
The storms have stripped the lily and the rose, Still on its cheek the flush of summer glows, And all its heart-leaves kindle as it blows.
What were our life, with all its rents and seams, Stripped of its purple robes, our waking dreams?
One of the young men had everything but his shirt stripped from him by the swirl.
Formerly they strippedthe gravel off until they came to the gold.
Thus has this infernal superstition aggravated the common miseries of life, and left these children stripped of both their parents in one day!
He stays but till he hath purged our corruptions, and healed the hardness and error of our hearts, and stripped us of our vain confidence in this arm of flesh, that he may have us rely wholly upon himself.
Several were stripped naked, their garments being scattered in rags over the ground; their shoes were cut to pieces and all broken.
The man was found stripped to the skin, and his boots had been carried thirty yards away.
The bark had been stripped off each, but only as far as the incision made for extracting the resin.
Sometimes the bark is only partially stripped off one side, or left on, in more or less regular bands, either on the trunk or on the branches.
All the trees have not been struck in the same way; some are scorched or stripped of their leaves; the others have their trunks perforated, or split in different parts.
Of its upper branches, which were wide and strong, four of the finest were destroyed; a fifth, stripped of its bark to a great extent, was not torn off the trunk.
The two young girls were stripped to the skin, even their boots being torn from their feet.
Very often they are merely stripped of their natural garments, in other words, of their bark and foliage.
It is not unusual to see the tree instantly stripped of its leaves as if by some mysterious power.
Zeke was stripped and tied to a tree, his hands above his head.
I order that you be stripped and receive one hundred lashes on the bare back, such punishment to be meted out to you in accordance with the laws laid down by the convention at Bennington.
Stripped of the usual heroics, it was, 'what will be thought of me?
I will not say that the postillion stripped off the mask for him, at that instant completely; but he gave him the first true glimpse of his condition.
Here, I beheld with pride The grace of Love half-naked; An empty bed and stripped Is all that now is left me.
Here all are stripped of cover And revel lustfully; The barren rock, a star!
The present, which seems to be symbolized by the little hut, is in the relentless grip of "a monstrous vision, the Fairy Illness, stripped in the silver glimmer of the moon.
English uniform--stolen from the living, or stripped from the dead?
Not a soldier could be discovered now; but in their places numerous corpses might be seen stripped of every covering, and in a state of nudity, that almost rendered identity impossible.
There was but one of that ship's company preserved a sullen indifference; I, who had been stripped of more than all together, kept a moody silence, and uttered no complaint.
The Kaffirs had stripped them and cut their flesh in many places.
As Frank spoke he took a roll of bank notes from another pocket and stripped off one of the denomination of one hundred dollars.
His chums quizzed him unmercifully, but he gave out no information regarding discoveries until after the meal was completed and they sat, wrapped in their heavy coats, before the stripped table, now bearing only empty dishes.
The tramp who got a hold of me night before last stripped me clean!
For the vessels that had been laid up all winter and stripped of everything, they were getting out the gear from the lofts.
Most of the vessels that had been fishing during the winter had been stripped of their winter sails, and now aboard these they were bending on the summer suits and slinging up what top spars had not already been sent up.
Arizora's streets were jammed with cars--fantastic desert coursers stripped to the nines and with canteens strapped to the running board.
A stunted palo verde tree nearly stripped of its verdure by the whips of the rain hung half-uprooted over the rapidly diminishing stream in the wash.
Liquid globules of moon-glow, round and pellucid as ice crystals, seductive as the shadowed whiteness of a woman's throat: the green pearls of the Virgin stripped by the impiety of El Rojo from the shrine of the Four Evangelists!
On the day of the battle, those of the regiment who were detailed to bury the dead, found the Colonel's body stripped of all clothing, and were told by the rebels that "the hogs did it.
The cabin had been stripped of everything suggestive of comfort and in place of rare china and the sumptuous service promised, they were introduced to tin cups and plates and iron spoons.
All of the latter, except one, being stripped of their clothing.
For a long time she had not been able to pass by the bench under the willows--she even avoided the elm walk till autumn had stripped its branches.
In vain the monks sought among the mass of slain, stripped as they were of armour and clothing.
Even the magnificent crucifix, the gift of Tostig and Judith, was stripped of all its ornaments, and tossed upon the floor.
The observation must be absolutely objective, in other words, strippedof preconceptions.
It must be stripped of all that is not absolute truth.
Ye think as much of your doits and mites, as if ye stripped yourselves of a comfort to give it to us.
But I have invariably taken care that the crime itself should stand stripped of every sophistry, and hideous to the perpetrator as well as to the world.
Nothing daunted the Black Palmer impudently stripped the golden mask from her face.
They too were relics from the Spanish castle which Norman Westfall had stripped of its ancient appurtenances to fashion an appropriate setting for the beautiful young Spanish wife whose death at the birth of Diane had goaded him to suicide.
The story of her life would not, indeed, be worth telling were it stripped of the manifestations of God's power.
Then they moved out into the patch of fennel, stripped it of all its leaves, and left only the stems standing.
Thus, if an ambitious state comes to be stripped of its usurpations, this should be not for the benefit of the conqueror but of the ancient possessors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stripped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
