How to Use striptease in a Sentence

striptease

noun
  • But the eight-episode series isn't all striptease and bowties!
    Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Dance troupe best known for their male striptease performances.
    Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 24 Jan. 2018
  • And Elle gets wasted at a party and does a striptease on a table.
    Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 22 June 2018
  • And then the photo of her striptease ends up blown up as a huge decorative poster at the prom!
    Morgan Baila, refinery29.com, 22 June 2018
  • An iconic dance troupe known for their all-male striptease revue is unionizing.
    James Factora, Them, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Those who perform pornography or striptease are also not covered by the law.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Parker loved it that Elvis was like a male striptease artist… like the bally girls on the carnivals.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 25 June 2022
  • Salma Hayek Pinault is looking back on her iconic striptease scene.
    Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2023
  • First, where does Maroon 5′s forgettable striptease land on the list?
    oregonlive, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The backdrops do a kind of striptease, each layer dragging slowly aside as the show progresses.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But would Lady Gaga have felt compelled to do a four-layer striptease on the red carpet?
    Judith Newman, latimes.com, 5 June 2019
  • Dressed in a filmy gown slit up the sides, Yee performed her dance to live music, in a style that could be described as just short of a striptease.
    Taylor Kate Brown, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2020
  • The series will detail the darkly comedic and crime-ridden story behind the male striptease revue.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Today, Jesse shares his thoughts via email about that senior striptease date, saying goodbye to Charles, and more.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The performance was punctuated by faux karate chops (Elvis had a black belt) and a partial striptease.
    Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The film follows a group of unemployed men who decide to create a Chippendales striptease act to raise funds for a friend.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 May 2024
  • The event, based on a series of British TV specials, will end with the troupe performing a striptease act.
    Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Even that comes with a reference, of course, to Sigourney Weaver’s striptease and final-boss battle from the first film.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2024
  • At four years old, Bowen scandalized them by doing a striptease to Céline Dion in the living room.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • As Schaefer asks, What was the nature of the performance of striptease in postwar burlesque films?
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
  • The delivery man then performed a Magic Mike-style striptease for Behar and her co-hosts.
    Stephanie Wenger, People.com, 4 Oct. 2024
  • With the finale now streaming on Hulu, EW breaks down the true stories at the center of the striptease saga.
    Jessica Wang, EW.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The show opened with Shakira and a crew of dancers in red, letting the audience known this would not be a Maroon 5 sleep striptease.
    oregonlive, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Her great, big burlesque performance is a striptease that, layer by layer, reveals her narcissism, her naïveté and her broken heart.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Each question feels like I’m being asked to remove a piece of clothing, a kind of mini striptease that leaves me exposed and unsettled.
    Yseult Polfliet Mukantabana, Time, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Taking the prank in stride, Lee laughed it off and then began to take his vest off pretending that a striptease was in order to go along with the acceptance of his new title.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Her stage name was Miss Conduct, and one of her routines was a striptease getting out of hockey gear; in another, a hockey stick was her scene partner.
    E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Migrating to Paris, the divorcee reinvented herself as a striptease dancer who claimed to be of Far Eastern descent.
    Ray Cavanaugh, Time, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But Rye’s older brother, Gig, has his eye set on Ursula the Great, a striptease artist who sings in a cage with a ravenous cougar.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, the play begins in the 1920s in Seattle.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024

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