“In the competition for excess, it is also necessary for a candidate's handlers to denude every dime store within a hundred miles of its stock of red, white and blue balloons.”

“I have promised that you will not denude him of all his possessions at your first meeting, but beyond that, I have refused to go.”

“The conductor did not denude his face this time, but stood over the heads of the musicians masked and elevated like a diabolical overlord.”

“If you denude the land of its timber, the tract becomes valueless.”

“Now, I can never recall hearing any man, young or old, express a longing to denude other men of their apparel.”