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How to use strip in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Strip means a long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area. Example: “The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”

Examples of strip by meaning

nounA long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

  • The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.

nounA long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.

  • Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
  • I have some strip left over after fitting out the kitchen.
  • At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

nounA television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip...

  • ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip.1955, Billboard, page 5

verbTo remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.

  • Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.

verbTo take off clothing.

  • Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
  • The prosecution case was that the men forced the sisters to strip, threw their clothes over the bridge, then raped them and participated in forcing them to jump into the river to their deaths.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian

verbTo perform a striptease.

  • In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.

verbTo take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.

  • The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
  • They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
  • The apartment was stripped clean by the previous tenants.

verbTo remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.

  • Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
  • The screw is stripped.

More sentences with strip

  • First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.From the entry next
  • The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood.From the entry chew
  • The gazebo’s roof was a web made of thin strips of wood.From the entry web
  • The last panel of a comic strip usually contains a punchline.From the entry panel
  • We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.From the entry peel
  • The sandpaper strips off the old green paint, but it gunks up quickly.From the entry gunk up
  • Grandpa would give each of the kids a strip of ladyfingers to light on New Year's Day.From the entry ladyfinger
  • Don’t use the steel wool on this pan; you’ll strip off the Teflon coating.From the entry steel wool
  • As soon as he got home from exercising, Ryan stripped down and took a shower.From the entry strip down
  • The project had to be stripped down to the core elements in order to hit the budget.From the entry strip down
  • When we stripped away the old wallpaper, we discovered an interesting mural painted on the wall.From the entry strip away
  • The government has stripped away some of our basic rights by passing a series of controversial laws.From the entry strip away
  • Strip down clean to the basic fibre, whatever it is, and cut it into knittable lengths.From the entry knittable
  • I've been using the online strip searches to find old comics I remember from childhood.From the entry strip search
  • He stripped down to a pair of see-through briefs that left nothing to the imagination.From the entry leave to the imagination
  • That girl at the strip club gave me wood.From the entry wood
  • The condo was stripped clean by the previous tenant.From the entry clean
  • Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.From the entry barker
  • Sven ordered a stack of flapjacks with maple syrup, two strips of bacon, and an egg, sunny side up.From the entry flapjack
  • Down the drag strip screamed a custom-tuned 4-4-2.From the entry 4-4-2
  • The Möbius strip is a nonorientable surface.From the entry nonorientable
  • The fire-and-brimstone preacher gave the city council a severe tongue-lashing after they voted on a zoning ordinance allowing a new strip club to open.From the entry fire and brimstone
  • Through every point of a nonorientable surface there passes a Möbius-like nonorientable strip (with an odd number of half-twists) which is part of that surface.From the entry nonorientable
  • I dumped my ex wife's PT Cruiser in the ghetto, hoping a spontaneous strip party would scrap that ugly car down to the wheels overnight.From the entry strip party
  • Zendaya’s character is now working as a drug mule for Alamo Brown, a ruthless strip club boss.2026 April 29, Louis Staples, “Tradwives, sugar babies and OnlyFans: Euphoria’s misogyny feels like the manosphere’s wet dream”, in The…. From the entry drug mule
  • If you're looking to try some, consider these six Byrdie-approved pore strips.2025 April 23, Julia A. Siegel, MD, “12 Methods to Unclog Pores That Dermatologists Swear By”, in Byrdie. From the entry be-all and end-all

Meaning of strip

  1. noun A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
  2. noun A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
  3. noun A comic strip.

Full definition of strip

Questions about strip in a sentence

How do you use strip in a sentence?
Strip is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.”
What is a short sentence with strip?
“The screw is stripped.”
What does strip mean?
Strip means a long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: strip (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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