Example Sentences

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Nevertheless, Congolese students drummed up discontent, and one leading businessman wired Mobutu: "We have undressed Peter to dress Paul."

From Time Magazine Archive

The bird wanders careless while Summer is green, The leaf-hidden cradle that rocked him unseen; When Autumn's rude fingers the woods have undressed, The boughs may look bare, but they show him his nest.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various

For if they are, and you have undressed them, then you must put their clothes on again.

From The Blue Lagoon: a romance by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)

She would have undressed, but she was afraid of losing the clothes while in the stream.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod

The servant who attended him would have undressed him; but he begged to be left alone, saying he had been used to dress and undress himself.

From The Fairchild Family by Rudland, Florence M.