How to Use undressed in a Sentence

undressed

adjective
  • I was undressed when the fire alarm went off.
  • Then, Gilpin got undressed from the waist down in front of a 13-year-old.
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2020
  • After the feast, the bride was undressed by her ladies and put to bed.
    Brian Fagan, Quartzy, 4 Oct. 2019
  • What’s wrong: First, the serving size (four tiny balls, each barely a bite, with a pile of undressed greens in the middle).
    Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The women in his life run the gamut: blond, brunet, young, old, underdressed, undressed, sane and rather less so.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2016
  • The table is undressed and bare oak, no table cloth is fresh and spare, and bare wood is beautiful and clean in the summer.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 July 2022
  • DeLarge told jurors that when Bedney came out of the restroom, the woman was undressed in bed, and had the covers pulled back.
    Heather Nolan, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The belly is often out or the dresses feel undressed, in a reaction to the lockdown’s comfy mood.
    Vogue, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Chuck Pagano’s team was blanked on its home field, routed by Blake Bortles, undressed by a division foe this club used to roll over with ease.
    Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
  • The suit, however, detailed that the woman attempted to leave the room as the actor undressed but was blocked from doing so.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 June 2023
  • The woman in another room had undressed and donned a hospital gown.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • After each Male player undressed in the locker room and trickled out to the tunnel to the team bus, Male faithful stood at the tunnel to give the players a hearty ovation.
    David J. Kim, The Courier-Journal, 8 Dec. 2019
  • Many of those who died in Hollywood were wheeled into hallways partially clothed or undressed to try and cool them off from the extreme heat.
    Charles Rabin, miamiherald, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Anna bathes (calling Johan in to scrub her back), sleeps (topless alongside the undressed Johan), and then dresses to go out.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2017
  • The documents state that both women were partially undressed when they were found.
    Connor Sanders, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Sep. 2021
  • Residents covered in mud lined up Sunday outside the First Baptist Church for their tetanus shots, many with undressed wounds.
    USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Baroque painting Midas and Bacchus and stocked with undressed mannequins.
    Armond White, National Review, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Things can get so bad there that in 2018 the local authorities had to start a campaign begging them not to get undressed or defecate in public.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 July 2021
  • Either way, this word can be synonymous with fur, or it can be applied to an undressed skin that will become a fur (leaving the hair, wool, or fur intact).
    Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Merchandise shops are filled with empty shelves and undressed mannequins.
    Howard Fendrich, courant.com, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Rachel’s not fully undressed and there’s no post-coital cuddle, but no judgment here, the breakfast buffet probably ends at 10.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • But other things, like walking your dog or running errands and maybe even getting dressed and undressed, will likely require the help of someone else.
    Adryan Corcione, SELF, 22 Nov. 2022
  • After finding the car, detectives returned to Cole’s house to do another search and found the body of an undressed White woman in the septic tank, the affidavit says.
    Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The suspect was undressed when police arrived and appeared to have been trying to get rid of drug evidence, according to the report.
    Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • But our Barbie dolls, roughly dressed, undressed, and reconfigured, had their role too.
    Sarah Seltzer, Time, 19 July 2023
  • That's because only Wimbledon is a private club, open year-round to members who could be getting dressed or undressed.
    Stuart Miller, latimes.com, 23 June 2019
  • Someone pulls back the covers on one of the women, who is apparently at least partially undressed.
    Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But this sort of performance has become far too commonplace, getting so thoroughly undressed at both ends of the floor.
    Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
  • At his request, the prostitute has undressed and is jumping up and down as Gautama gleefully grasps her breasts.
    Adrian Tomine, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • But within minutes of entering the room, Sipherd said, Weinstein was half undressed, clawing at her skirt.
    James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022

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