How to Use strip in a Sentence

strip

1 of 2 verb

• She gets paid to dance and strip at the club.
• They stripped the room when they left.
• The prisoners were stripped naked.
• They stripped the table and refinished it.
• He stripped himself down to his underwear.
• The building had been completely stripped of its original woodwork.
• Trees might in time be stripped of their foliage, and leaves would fly in the wind.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
• Attendance has dropped to last in the league as the team has been stripped of its stars.
  — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 5 Apr. 2024
• The detail of the work suggests stripping back the door plug to its bare frame to undertake the checks.
  — Danny Lee, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2024
• Some of the barns were barely standing, stripped to their wooden beams by the water.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Queen stripped Mitchell while bringing him down for a quick gain, firing up the defense.
  — Timothy Dashiell, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2023
• Those that were not uprooted were stripped of their bark.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2024
• If a man proved to be a bad leader, the clan would strip him of his tribal position.
  — Mona Gable, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
• The nurses, for example, stripped his bandages all at once, as per the cliché.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• He was stripped to his boxers, a T-shirt and socks before being placed in a cell alone.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Here’s what the Long Beach community can expect from the new program and how the test strips work.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• When stripping out gas and food, the core CPI cooled for the sixth month in a row and was up 4.1% annually off a 0.3% monthly gain.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
• At the station, she is required to strip and, literally, can’t hide the scars from the fight with Betty.
  — Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 15 May 2023
• Over the next 150 years or so, collectors like Pugh stripped the region of its ancient past.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• The scene when my character had to strip was terrifying to me.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
• Overnight, people are stripped of their rights, denied health care, and returned to the status of pariahs.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Aug. 2023
• In some ways, the looming terror of the annual Ohio State beatdown stripped some joy from the journey that should have been tapped.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• Roll each strip over a pencil or use a scissor blade to carefully curve the cut strips upward.
  — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• In response to widespread criticism, the army has said detainees are stripped to check them for weapons.
  — Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• That’s because those little (or large) strips (or strip, as the case may be) of hair serve a few critical functions.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2023
• The 1792 home was restored in a way that stripped it down to its essence: A vaulted ceiling in the main, open living area exposes wood beams.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 9 Nov. 2023
• Trying to strip song ideas down to their core before getting too caught up in the production side of things and adding more layers to it.
  — Danny Klein, SPIN, 12 May 2023
• Such an event within the first 100 million years of the star's birth could end up stripping a planet of its atmosphere.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 29 July 2023
• This rendition sees the pair stripping the song back, with Bieber joining in on vocals.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2023
• The once intriguing opening has been stripped of tension.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2023

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strip

2 of 2 noun

• Then tie the husk ends with strips of husks or kitchen string.
  — Scott Peacock, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 July 2023
• Wrap the strip into a ring large enough to hold an egg and secure with glue.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Feb. 2024
• Over the past 24 hours, Israel Air Force jets struck more than 60 targets across the strip.
  — Hazem Balousha, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
• And there’s perhaps no show off the strip better known than Cirque du Soleil.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2023
• With less mess and fuss, Breezeo strips enable you to take care of your clothing with ease!
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
• Wide strips of crust form a pleasing design that shows off the stone fruit in this slab pie.
  — Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 29 July 2023
• Natural gas and oil fields lie in a strip along the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Make sure the rigid plastic strip, which presses the foam tightly against the door gap, is on the side away from the door and not flat against it.
  — Matt Jancer, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2023
• This strip is bustling with bars, restaurants and boutiques.
  — Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
• The three main modes are trays, an application pen and strips.
  — Korin Miller, wsj.com, 20 Sep. 2023
• To Corley’s right was a guy balancing a stack of trays filled with New York strip steaks.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
• Some people make this dish with noodle dumplings, which are flat strips of dough cooked in the soup, rather than on top of it.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• Slide the eggs onto a cutting board, then cut into strips.
  — Becky Krystal, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Hot-glue a dowel between two green strips, right down the center.
  — Amanda Kingloff, Parents, 2 Feb. 2024
• Over the grill, Stone is serving up cuts of meat such as a New York strip and a cowboy ribeye for two.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2023
• The light strip was easy to sync up with our smartphone, and the app was intuitive to navigate.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2024
• Take the mahogany strips that will comprise the foredeck: These are curved by steam, a practice that also dates back to the Vikings.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 18 Feb. 2024
• This pair has a super high-waisted fit with a no-slip strip to keep them in place under clothes.
  — Alex Warner, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023
• The chain offers chicken sliders and chicken strips served over white bread or rice and coleslaw.
  — Mario Cortez, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2023
• Food aid entered the north of the strip for the first time in weeks yesterday, with fears mounting of an imminent famine.
  — NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024
• See the unveiling of his star on the coveted strip, below.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2023
• More than a million Palestinians are crammed into the tiny strip of land along the border with Egypt.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Anti-slip silicone strips at the top and bottom further work to keep it in place.
  — Jenna Clark, Women's Health, 30 Mar. 2023
• The deputy had been trying to get in front of the fleeing vehicle to place spike strips in the road, authorities said.
  — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Feb. 2024
• The stripper also comes with an adjustable stopper to control the length of the core strip directly.
  — Bobbi Dempsey, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2023
• The restaurant will also have a carving station with roasted strip steak, smoked salmon and desserts.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 11 Mar. 2024
• The logo gives a pop of reflective metallic contrast and the quilting runs as strips along the length of the strap, giving it a distinct look.
  — Tim Barribeau, wsj.com, 27 Oct. 2023
• And there’s an extra step in the process that requires you to leave the swab in the testing solution for one minute before dropping it on the test strip.
  — Nsisong Asanga, Health, 12 May 2023
• The chair crashed onto the Broadway strip, not far from two police officers.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
• Purcell expected the deer to move through the plot and move back into the beans next to the strip of timber where her tree stand was located.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024