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How to use nakedness in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun

Nakedness means the state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness. Example: “She walked toward him, outslinking Liz Racoda, and pushed her nakedness at him.”

More sentences with nakedness

  • She walked toward him, outslinking Liz Racoda, and pushed her nakedness at him.2015, William T. Delamar, The Caretakers. From the entry outslink
  • The combination of air and nakedness present in the airbath regenerated shattered neves.2005, Chad Ross, Naked Germany: health, race and the nation, page 96. From the entry airbath
  • Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.2004, Judith Levine, Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self, Free Press, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry boxer-short
  • They had the drop on us and I had the feeling normally associated with nakedness.1996, Jim Burtt-Smith, John French, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry have the drop on
  • They were allowed to "nakedize" as a privilege on a theory of "philosophic nakedness".1936, Robert Palfrey Utter, Mrs. Gwendolyn (Bridges) Needham, Pamela's Daughters, page 392. From the entry nakedize
  • The scanty garments of fig-leaves with which our abashed first parents sought to conceal their nakedness.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 5. From the entry abashed
  • But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC. From the entry brand
  • And then she saw a small shadow—she supposed shame—pass across her father’s face when he looked at her nakedness.1998, William H. Gass, “Emma Enters a Sentence of Elizabeth Bishop’s”, in Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas. From the entry hair up
  • We cover our anterior nakedness with some philosophy—Christian, Marxian, Freudo-Physicalist—but abaft we remain uncovered, at the mercy of the winds of circumstance.1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, New York: Perennial, published 1970, page 72. From the entry abaft
  • All social defenses are stripped away and the veritable soul of man stands forth, unashamed of its nakedness and unembarrassed for its deformities.1924, Charles B[ert] Reed, “Survivals”, in Four Way Lodge, Chicago, Ill.: Pascal Covici, page 170. From the entry confrontal
  • Confused and wondering what I'd done wrong, I eventually realized that if you say no to nakedness, especially with Bruce Weber, you're pretty much dunzo in the modeling business.2014, Courtney Robertson, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry dunzo
  • I tried to shield my nakedness with hands and leaves, but Tatu the amazon generaless, pulled away my fingers and put one of those many-thonged whips into them.1959, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King, Viking. From the entry generaless
  • Their thought and passion create rhythms that shall not disguise, but reveal them in absolute nakedness ; nay, more, that shall set them in the most promulgatory light.1912, William Norman Guthrie, The vital study of literature, and other essays. From the entry promulgatory
  • His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32. From the entry beefy
  • She lifted her night-dress over her head and for a moment caught a glimpse of her nakedness in the tarnished looking-glass—plumply rounded thighs and knees, the dimple in her stomach.1986, William Trevor, “Kathleen's Field”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1254. From the entry plumply

Meaning of nakedness

  1. noun The state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.

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Questions about nakedness in a sentence

How do you use nakedness in a sentence?
Nakedness is used as a noun. For example: “She walked toward him, outslinking Liz Racoda, and pushed her nakedness at him.”
What is a short sentence with nakedness?
“She walked toward him, outslinking Liz Racoda, and pushed her nakedness at him.”
What does nakedness mean?
Nakedness means the state or condition of being naked; nudity; bareness; defenselessness; undisguisedness.

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