How To Use Stripped In A Sentence

They run out of beer by about 7pm so we then turned to the wine, which I'm afraid would have stripped the paint off any wall.
About a year ago, we took everything out of the rooms, stripped out the floor, put in new 1-inch pavers through the whole area, and then brought in the new pasteurizer and re-piped the entire system.
The pace things were going meant that liquidity demands would have outstripped liquidity resources. Times, Sunday Times
Millions of consumer electronics devices - mobile phones, PDAs, PVRs, and DVD platers - are already running on stripped-down embedded versions of Linux.
If you place the access outside, be sure it is insulated and weatherstripped against both the elements and intrusion by insects or small animals.

Ironic, because this is genuinely naked food, stripped bare, revealing all, hiding nothing.
Then several wardresses came in, stripped me, put me into prison clothes and took me to another cell. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Dey allowed de patterollers to snoop around an 'whup de slaves, mother said dey stripped some of de slaves naked an' whupped 'em. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
In most cases, each song is given melodic depth by MacKaye's baritone guitar and Farina's stripped-kit drumming.
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off. CHAPTER XXIX
He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
This left the US-funded base to be stripped bare by locals.
He was caught cheating during the Seoul Olympics and humiliatingly stripped of his title.
The mountain slopes that had been stripped were covered in bush and vines.
A feeding frenzy ensued - within minutes the unfortunate man was stripped of his clothes.
My fatuous school blazer was stripped from my shoulders and replaced with a leather waistcoat. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
There’s also a type known as stem lettuce, or celtuce; it’s especially popular in Asia for its prominent and crisp stalk, which is stripped of its small leaves, peeled, sliced, and cooked. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
It was partially stripped and disassembled, basically thousands of parts in boxes and no directions!
Terry stripped down to her bra and pants and tried on the dress.
A market trader has told how he faces going out of business after overnight raiders stripped his van of £10,000 worth of goods.
What that meant was that no more of the existing metal deck roof would be stripped off each day than could be re-covered that day.
The original interior has been stripped back to its bare shell and the exposed structure sandblasted.
As a healthier alternative to refined white sugar, I chose granulated cane juice, which has not been stripped of all its nutrients.
I stripped off my sodden socks and my snowsuit, already reeking of wet wool, and left them on the radiator.
This is country style with a grace and lightness that makes a welcome change from the usual heavy stripped pine.
The room was stripped bare but there was no doubt that it was at one time a child's room.
I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel. Times, Sunday Times
Stripped of their tough skins with a vegetable peeler or paring knife, broccoli stems make a delicious, slightly crunchy addition to any broccoli dish.
They argued that the law was unconstitutional as it stripped them of their intellectual property rights without compensation. Times, Sunday Times
Stripped of any political content, today's conflicts in Northern Ireland are now what many wrongly assumed them to be during the Troubles: base, atavistic, sectarian clashes.
He was stripped of his official posts as he increasingly championed democratic reform. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, the trees are stripped of their leaves and branches, but also the storm surge has had the most devastating result.
I suspect that paint is being stripped in Wanganui.
This terraced house is undergoing refurbishment, retaining period features such as open fireplaces and stripped wooden floors. Times, Sunday Times
It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo. Jill the Reckless
The clip is inserted in the magazine well and an internal spring loaded follower pushes fresh cartridges up within the clip as they are stripped off by the bolt.
The walls have been stripped bare.
Stripped of its own genetic instructions, the recipient egg cell is a tiny biological machine awaiting orders.
The workmen were stripped to the waist .
Along the way the potholes got filled, the cobbles were nicely asphalted, the hoardings were stripped of their multi-layered messages, and the chill damp was replaced with warmth and light.
They were moored, stem and stern, in a grog-shop, making a great noise, with a crowd of Indians and hungry half-breeds about them, and with a fair prospect of being stripped and dirked, or left to pass the night in the calabozo. Chapter XXVII. The Sunday Wash-Up-On Shore-A Set-To-A Grandee-“Sail Ho!”-A Fandango
Not since Clay was stripped of his world title for conscientiously objecting to serving in Vietnam has a sportsman suffered as grave an injustice as this cricketer.
Every morning each bed had to be stripped and remade with freshly ironed linen.
In the final findings for bidders to use in preparation for the lease sale, published November 9th, Division of Oil and Gas officials say the U-S State Department has notified Alaska of the title dispute, and that potential bidders should? be prepared for [...] (HTML is stripped out and links are not linked.) MP3Board.com
As he did so the big man quickly grabbed his arms and the woman stripped his armour breastplate away, and he was frogmarched towards a small crag.
Any athletes who tested positive could be stripped of any medals or disqualified from competition. Times, Sunday Times
Officials charge these loggers then set forest fires and stripped trees of their bark in order to get the death certificates required to cut them down.
She stripped nude to clean out the fridge and Chris decided to sit with a beer and watch.
My son stripped my watch and couldn't assemble it.
A team stripped of core players were thrashed by the European champions who cruised into the quarter-finals with a game to spare. Times, Sunday Times
He stripped off his sweater and threw it onto the couch.
Sir Peter Viggers, MP for Gosport, was told he would be stripped of the Tory whip unless he agreed to retire.
But as we know, the pupil has now far outstripped the master.
At this point in time, almost all of us are aware that an ordinary individual can't expect to take a flight without being stripped to the toenail clippers.
He slid down to sit on the floor, facing the fireplace, its hearth stripped of ashes and as lifeless and bare as the rest of the house.
Back in the sanctuary of my dimly-lit rooms I ran the bath, stripped off and sank into the water.
Last year, the Chinese Eximbank pledged $20bn in development funds for African infrastructure and trade financing over the next three years, funds that outstripped all western donor pledges combined.
He carried the can with him into the bathroom where he stripped off his clothes and turned on the shower.
Assets were being stripped out of Germany to feed the French and the British.
It has put forward no plans, however, to force timber companies to reforest the stripped areas and made no mention of the ongoing logging activities.
We've stripped wallpaper, painted, put up skirting boards, hung blinds, panelled ceilings and clad walls.
French philosopher Joseph de Maistre (an antirevolution contemporary of Edmund Burke) complained that the Enlightenment types had stripped government of the mystery needed to awe the governed. A Blog Too Far: How the Maestro Made Them Mad
Stripped of brand identity, the blatant potency of advertising imagery is laid bare.
I was on the swim team and I had my bathing suit on (I skipped after school practice) so I stripped down to the black one piece I had on underneath.
Beyond this the entrance hall includes ceiling cornicing and a dado rail as well as a stripped pine staircase and banisters.
The man, who was stripped to the waist and bearing an open wound from a colostomy bag which had been pulled off, was eventually returned to the hospital.
Now that the party's deputy leader has announced she will not stand in next year's Assembly elections, the party is to be stripped of its only eminent woman and bleached of its last shade of green.
They are ghastly chrome and stripped pine affairs with all the atmosphere of a self-assembly wardrobe.
Ensure the fuze well is clean and the threads are not stripped.
He stripped the suit off, so he was only wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a thin shirt.
Stripped to a pair of cotton trousers, with a dripping cutlass in one hand and a Colt's revolver in the other, an adventurer at the head of a bunch of dogs as desperate as himself fought his way across the reeking decks of a Chinese junk, to close in single combat with a gigantic one-eyed pirate who stood by the helm with a ring of dead men about him and a great two-handed sword upheaved .... The Cruise of the Jasper B.
He was stripped naked and left in a cell.
BASH (voice-over): Arlen Specter didn't show up for this Senate Judiciary Committee meeting, but his empty seat at the very end of the dais is a stark illustration of his new junior ranking since Democrats stripped his seniority on all committees. CNN Transcript May 6, 2009
And we now have compelling evidence that German forces deliberately carried out a scorched-earth policy; they flooded mines, blew up bridges and stripped bare factories as they retreated.
He was stripped of his Olympic Hundred Metres gold medal after testing positive for steroids.
His father had also been a small-time crook too, and had been stripped of his war medals. Times, Sunday Times
He also stripped the ivy from the house and chopped down the oak trees, including one with a treehouse built for the previous residents' kids.
I stripped and hopped in, taking my shampoo, conditioner, body wash, toothbrush and paste and sponge with me.
Alternatively, dip a toothpick or sliver of wood in glue and break off the tip in the stripped hole, then reinstall the screw.
The set designer has stripped the stage bare and draped it with heroically scaled posters.
Charlie navigated and E. J. and I trolled for bluefish while Jan stripped to her bikini and sunned herself on the forward bulkhead. FOLLOW THE SHARKS
The stripped-down band of guitars, bass and percussion creates a beautiful simplicity in direct contrast to what is perceived as Latin music today.
It converts its German distributor to a stripped-risk intermediary called a commissionaire to limit what would otherwise be sales margins taxable in Germany. Transfer Pricing As Tax Avoidance
It was at that point that the screw thread stripped and the pressure blew the whistle up in the air.
One of the men stripped off her filthy clothes, and the men about her grunted in admiration of her fine figure.
In signal recycling it is these sidebands that are stripped off the laser carrier wave and sent back into the interferometer, so that the signal can be built up and amplified.
That seems to be beyond the imagination and capabilities of the sweet-tempered, passive, over-educated, please-play-nice Obama staff whose Democratic-controlled congress has just stripped $12bn from a long-term food stamps program precisely at the time when more Americans than ever hunger, literally, for such assistance. Clancy Sigal: Wimps Don't Win
Several ministers were stripped of parliamentary immunity as a prelude to facing corruption charges.
On either side of this desecrated apartment, stretched, to the right, the old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god; to the left, what had been the gynoecium (women's apartment). Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
Finally, most of the water is stripped off the surface when the thread leaves the exit spigot, helping the spider to avoid water loss and making its thread even tougher.
I stripped off my clothes and stepped in to a waterfall of hot water.
Mary's brother Robert Whittaker, a brazier, stripped to his underwear when the ship struck, and threw away 80 gold sovereigns, the weight of which threatened to drown him.
All non-essentials are stripped away and asymmetrical designs are everywhere.
Despite the pervasive nature of creolisation on Barbados, it is a mistake to conclude that West African cultural patterns were stripped from the black population.
The guy put his head down and stormed on, his vicious racist rantings now dimmed to a mutter, his hate-filled words completely stripped of any power.
But he heard the gauze, which had now been stripped from his face completely, dropped with a wet plop into a receptacle. COLDHEART CANYON
I stripped his shirt, and examined the deep wounds on his chest.
He was stripped of his Olympic Hundred Metres gold medal after testing positive for steroids.
Police forces should also be stripped of the sole power to discipline their own officers by being required to bring civilians on to disciplinary panels. Times, Sunday Times
Like her copatriot counterparts Jose Gonzalez and Jens Lekman, Frida Hyvönen is a loner; a stripped-down ivory tickler, who maybe falls somewhere between our own Fiona Apple and Tori Amos. Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
The department reinstated her, but stripped her of her rank as sergeant.
Wherein we learn tearing away outer trappings of the Light merely unclothes the Light ... making the Light shine even further and all the more, even though some try to pit us and others against each other to see who gets the biggest piece of what does not matter: Jesus is stripped of his clothing and soldiers gamble for his blood-soaked garments. National Catholic Reporter
Behind the screen workmen have already gutted the inside of the former church, the roof is being stripped of damaged tiles and stonemasons are cleaning stones and removing badly eroded ones for replacement.
The general was stripped of his rank.
The improvement in graphics has vastly outstripped advances in interactive technology.
The story is in how Marshall attracts them, like you, with songs stripped of lyrical and musical artifice and a smoky, kool chick voice.
This would have stripped the bitter racial rancor out of the affirmative action debate.
A seaside council which stripped deckchairs, crockery, kettles and hotplates out of its chalets to save money is putting them in a museum ready for the day they become collector's items.
Among them were several larger ones -- their spars had been stripped and only the bare hulls remained, lying side-on and half-submerged. THE MAIN CAGES
Minimalism fiction stripped to verbal basics, shunning flourish and style, and McGurl's alternative category of miniaturism, are not so much genuine artistic movements as system grotesqueries imitating theory, creative writing's opposite ravenous beast. Anis Shivani: Can Writing Be Taught? The Systems-Theory Rationalizations Of An Insider
Carelessly, I stripped myself of my chiton and my sandals.
Thieves had stripped the house bare.
Squitieri, an alumna of WNO's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, was a little overemphatic as Beatrice, stripped of her prototype's smoldering mystery, but had some lovely vocal moments. Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán
Anatoli Natan Sharansky was twenty-nine years old when he was seized by the Russian secret police, the KGB, taken to Lefortovo prison, stripped naked and searched, and told that he was being charged with treason, a capital offense. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
The governor ordered the prisoner to be stripped naked and whipped.
I stripped off my sweater and my two outer shirts, leaving only my undershirt and then bra.
The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
So last October she stripped her sales force of all its clerical duties.
Within seconds he stripped off the fancy garment and flung it at Sir Miley.
The man, stripped of clothes, is floating near a patch of reeds.
The stylish restaurant has stripped wooden floorboards. Times, Sunday Times
Jay stripped his clothes off and ran into the sea.
I stripped and got under the shower and washed myself as clean as I could without flaying myself with the pumice. A DARKENING STAIN
He evangelized for an idiosyncratic version of Henri Bergson's creative evolution, stripped of the Frenchman's lucubrations on space, time, duration, memory, and mind.
Where once there was walnut veneer on the floor, there is now proper stripped wood.
He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
The script for Brett Ratner’s “X-Men: The Last Stand” continued this theme, offering a “cure” for mutants that stripped them of their powers, but the movie also reveled in corny dialogue and moved too fast to be very cohesive. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” worst of the comic book series so far » Scene-Stealers
Then the finish was stripped and the bare metal repolished.
It was about the trees, stripped bare now, and their mood sad probably because of their denudement. Suzanna Stirs the Fire
Since the joint capsules and ligaments play a crucial role in the kinematics of the tarsal joints, they cannot be stripped away with impunity.
Although dutifully gutted and stripped of their fur-bearing skin in the field by the trappers, the remaining bits of rotting flesh and grizzle began to give off a stink as the pelts thawed in boxes on the warehouse floor. A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
He stripped down to his drawers in measured motions that made her want to gnash her teeth with frustration, but when he finally shucked them, too, she caught her breath. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory. Chapter 10
All non-essentials are stripped away and asymmetrical designs are everywhere.
No other artist has swung so fluently from hard rock and stripped-down funk to ballads and dance raunch. Times, Sunday Times
“Older double-hung windows may have gaps at the sides or at the meeting of the two lites, for example, that one would not want to caulk and that cannot be easily and securely weatherstripped.” Five Home Winterizing Myths
So perfect was his jockeyship, so clever his management of the animal he mounted, so intimately acquainted was he with every cross-road in the neighborhood of the metropolis -- a book of which he constructed, and carried constantly about his person --, as well as with many other parts of England, particularly the counties of Chester, York, and Lancaster, that he outstripped every pursuer, and baffled all attempts at capture. Rookwood
Because of the pollution, the trees are almost completely stripped of bark.
Jay stripped his clothes off and ran into the sea.
The little boy stripped off and dived into the river naked.
Not connecting it this way would make it a bomb stripped of all explosives, a dud.
In theory, one of the advantages of this stripped down system is that you wouldn;t need ot live in one of those cities, as you wouldn't need accessto those apparati in order to launch into a bigger market. 1000 True Fans
At one point a women was stripped to her bra in front of us.
He and his mates are laughing and jeering at their next-door neighbour: a crazy old man, stripped to the waist, performing what looks like some kind of weird callisthenics routine in his backyard.
Change another gear,it has been stripped.
He had an odd, direct style of speech that, outside the dohyo at least, was stripped of politeness and the traditional niceties. The Miko
Stripped of its activism, the book's titular search for Afro-Asian solidarity could be read as an increasingly monastic pursuit, as the dream of a global alliance against imperialism is passed from one individual to the next.
In education systems, language is often stripped of its appropriacy, and based on ‘knowledge about’ formal written language. C is for Conditional (the Third) « An A-Z of ELT
Apparently I was wasting time that I could have been spending in the pub – I wish I had known that at the time on January 24, 2010 at 3: 07 pm buster as a probationer I wnt to a body hanging in a tree in a wooded area early January, the winter had stripped all leaves and greenery from the trees and it looked spooky a body silhouted against a grey sky. The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Other countries have outstripped us, but why have we suddenly become so bad?
The men were stripped, numbered, given a cursory medical examination and put in boiler suits. Times, Sunday Times
We are healthier and living longer but the rest of Europe has outstripped us.
Police pensions continued to be a drain on the budget and support systems had been stripped back to such an extent that it would be ‘dangerous’ to go further.
Do this by sticking the stripped ends of the wires into any hole in the neutral bus bar and attaching them by tightening down the screw heads.
The entire section was stripped naked, exposing the ship's innards to the cold expanse of space.
Cale shrugged and stripped down to his usual sleepwear.
This reflects the simple fact that demand has vastly outstripped supply. Times, Sunday Times
Here, tonight, I write to you stripped of all dignity and pride, in an unmitigated plea for help.
I could think of no better way to communicate than with a poem, where pretense is stripped away, leaving only what is beautiful and vital. And I didn’t even get your name… : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Beijing banned the logging which had stripped the upper reaches of China's major rivers bare and embarked on a huge reafforestation campaign.
That manufacturer outstripped all his competitors in sales last year.
The door needs to be solid core wood or insulated metal, and very well weatherstripped.
Players will be stripped of titles if they haven't followed the rules of etiquette.
Households have suffered three years of effective pay cuts as inflation outstripped wage rises. Times, Sunday Times
Formerly all tenants had some capital, and often considerable; but absentee landlordism, rising rack-rent, and failing cotton have stripped them well-nigh of all, and probably not over half of them to-day own their mules. The Souls of Black Folk
So I've stripped out the colours and reverted to plain black on white.
The 21-year-old stripped off down to his undercrackers - sending the crowd wild. The Sun
He stripped for a bath.
Today they would receive treatment - but in the 1940s they were publicly shamed, stripped of their badges of rank in front of their comrades and ordered to carry out menial tasks on another station.
In America on the other hand, immigrant publics, with weakened connexions to heteroclite pasts, could only be aggregated by narrative and visual schemas stripped to their most abstract, recursive common denominators.
We stripped off the synthetic climbing skins from our skis.
The costs, which were not adjusted for inflation, outstripped median household incomes over the same period by 152 percentage points.
If you do not feel the same way, a white, yellow or stripped carnation is a sympathetic way to refuse. Goddard Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The boys quickly stripped down to boxers and swan dived into the pond.
He stripped to the waist and began to dig.
Elsewhere, John Coltraine's ‘A Love Supreme’ is stripped of any horns whatsoever and used instead as an extended intro to a jangly, wah-wah peppered version of Marvin Gaye's ‘Please Stay’.
The two men strove to write poetry that was stripped of all rhetorical flourishes, bookish or archaic language. Times, Sunday Times
Charles Letellier, for instance, decried the figure's indecent state of undress (she is shown stripped down to her petticoat) and compared her bare arms to those of modern grisettes and washerwomen.
He was stripped of his official posts as he increasingly championed democratic reform. Times, Sunday Times
Even then, Alucius would be stripped of most of his power.
It was originally passed during the Civil War to combat war-profiteering (hence the “Lincoln Law”), but health care fraud recoveries have now far outstripped recoveries from the traditional target of the defense industry. The Volokh Conspiracy » “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it” (continued)
‘Black Mountain poetry is stripped bare of everything,’ an acolyte of Frank O'Hara said.
Square paintings divided into apparently geometric blocks, the stripped areas retaining the ghostly residue of the oils where they have bitten into the canvas.
Many shops that used to display ample stock on the sidewalk were stripped bare.
The bed had been stripped all the way from the hangings to the bedwarmer.
Have the oligarchs stripped assets from the companies they acquired in privatization, rather than investing in them?
He was officially exposed as a spy by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and was stripped of his knighthood.
He had crept unnoticed into the yard, stripped off and poured a bucket of water over his head.
Unnecessary and unsightly accretions have been stripped away and the building replanned to accommodate new teaching spaces and laboratories.
Luma Lane has already given brief respite by then; hair clamped in bunches, her not unattractive playground lullaby vocal stripped from the finer points of the 4AD back catalogue.
Mithra like the rest of the gods and goddess of the Iranian Pantheon was stripped of his sovereignty, and all his powers and attributes were bestowed upon Zarathustra.
To prepare the tree for the sculpting process its bark would first be stripped away.
Then it was clewlines and buntlines and lowering of yards as the topgallant-sails were stripped off.
I was filling my new spare time with some overdue house renovation: Rooms were stripped bare and littered with paint chips and fabric swatches, furniture stacked on end in my living room.
Thousands of overseas students face being deported after the Government stripped a university of its right to teach foreigners from outside the EU. Times, Sunday Times
An accrediting group last year stripped the hospital of its ability to train aspiring surgeons and radiologists and recommended closing the neonatology training program. Medpundit
If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish.
They argued that the law was unconstitutional as it stripped them of their intellectual property rights without compensation. Times, Sunday Times

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