It was one of their rites to procure a virgin, and to denude her as an emblem of the moon in an unclouded sky. |
She had never forgiven her husband for trying to denude Harry of his birthright. |
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. |
Snow geese often denude areas of cotton grass, leaving behind mostly mosses, which increases the flux of solar energy into soils. |
Claud considered it a pleasure to denude his property of expensively raised pheasants. |
Sometimes the struggle lasts for hours on a plot of meadow, which they denude of its grass as cleanly as if it had been ploughed. |