Sentences with strip
strip
S s - ...a new kind of manufactured wood made by pressing strips of wood together and baking them. [+ of]
- The coastal cities of Liguria sit on narrow strips of land lying under steep mountains. [+ of]
- Strip1 implies the pulling or tearing off of clothing, outer covering, etc. and often connotes forcible or even violent action and total deprivation [to strip paper off a wall, stripped of sham]; denude implies that the thing stripped is left exposed or naked [land denuded of vegetation]; divest implies the taking away of something with which one has been clothed or invested [an official divested of authority]; bare1 simply implies an uncovering or laying open to view [to bare one's head in reverence]; dismantle implies the act of stripping a house, ship, etc. of all of its furniture or equipment [a dismantled factory]
- ...Goff's Charcoal Hamburgers on Lover's Lane, a busy commercial strip in North Dallas.
- They stripped completely, and lay in the damp grass. [VERB]
- The children were brazenly stripping off and leaping into the sea. [VERB PREPOSITION]
- One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten. [be VERB-ed]
- After Mike left for work I stripped the beds and vacuumed the carpets. [VERB noun]
- Volvo's three-man team stripped the car and restored it. [VERB noun]
- In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times. [VERB noun PREPOSITION]
- The soldiers have stripped the civilians of their passports, and every other type of document. [V n of n]
- ...the Doonesbury strip.
- To strip a wall
- He was stripped of his pride
- stripped pine
- His car was stripped down
- To strip a room of furniture
- A fast-food strip
- Bananas strip easily.
- A strip of cloth, metal, land, etc.
- Sunset Strip in Los Angeles.