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How to use undress in a sentence

21 example sentences · verb, noun

Undress means to remove one's clothing. Example: “She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.”

Examples of undress by meaning

verbTo remove one's clothing.

  • She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.

verbTo remove one’s clothing.

  • The doctor asked me to undress for the examination.

verbTo remove the clothing of (someone).

  • Mary began to undress her daughter in preparation for bathtime.
  • The young men slowly and sensually undressed each other before making passionate love.

verbTo take the dressing, or covering, from.

  • to undress a wound

nounNow more specifically, a state of having few or no clothes on.

  • She returned to her dorm to find her roommate, fresh out of the shower, in a state of undress.

More sentences with undress

  • Though over six feet tall, the man was very small and ashamed to undress.From the entry small
  • He accidentally walked in on me while I was undressing.From the entry walk in on
  • I undress while listening to the snickles on the other end.2011, Chandra Calton, You are welcomed: Just bring your heart, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry snickle
  • He pretended to be dusting, but I could feel his eyes undressing me.1999, Kelly McQuain, “Je T’aime, Batman, Je T’adore”, in Julie K. Trevelyan, Scott Brassart, editors, Wilma Loves Betty and Other…. From the entry chubber
  • I stop at one of the largest of these pools, undress and plunge in.1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone…. From the entry cheekful
  • “The ritual undressing of the chilip,” a friend had called it, chilip (“grey hair”) being the local word for foreigners.2025 June 17, Betsy Bolton, In the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon: Happiness, History, and Environment in a Changing Bhutan, Lever Press…. From the entry chilip
  • You undress, along with the family that knows you.2022 March 15, A Breath of Elena, “A Man With Boobs in an Indoor Swimming Pool”, in Medium – Prism & Pen, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry corona belly
  • It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 729. From the entry palp
  • No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.1963, Albert J[ay] Solnit, Sally A. Provence, editors, Modern Perspectives in Child Development: In Honor of Milton J. E. Senn, New York…. From the entry redress
  • Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.1922, Emily Post, chapter 12, in Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home. From the entry lady's maid
  • "The dressing and undressing is such a trouble," said she.1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Raleigh, NC: Hayes Barton Press, Part IV, Chapter I, p. 247. From the entry elastic sides
  • “That’s not it.” She turned to Galen, trying to undress him with her eyes — something I was too embarrassed to do.2016, Brent Hartinger, chapter 5, in Three Truths and a Lie, Simon Pulse, page 66. From the entry undress with one's eyes
  • The other recruits started to undress where they stood but Ledanseur was too embarrassed to strip off in front of his new comrades.2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire. From the entry strip off
  • In short: A bold but academically challenged German undresses an unconscious Valkyrie, and finds it a whole lot scarier than killing a singing dragon.2001, Robert Thicknesse, Simon Key, The Times Opera Notes: An Accessible Yet Scholarly Guide to Over 90 Major Operas, page 153. From the entry the family that sleeps together keeps together
  • His wife gave her a winesop to eat and after, undressing her, put her to bed; and they contrived that night to have her and her maid carried to Florence.circa 1982, John Payne, Decameron (translated from Giovanni Boccaccio's Italian). From the entry winesop

Meaning of undress

  1. verb To remove one's clothing.
  2. verb To remove one’s clothing.
  3. verb To remove the clothing of (someone).

Full definition of undress

Questions about undress in a sentence

How do you use undress in a sentence?
Undress is used as a verb and noun. For example: “She undressed herself before putting on her bedclothes.”
What is a short sentence with undress?
“to undress a wound”
What does undress mean?
Undress means to remove one's clothing.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: undress (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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