How to Use denude in a Sentence

denude

verb

• Excessive logging has denuded the hillside of trees.
• That explains why punctured pooches need trips to the vet to denude their faces.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2012
• The bad news is that trees that are denuded for two summers in a row may not survive.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 30 June 2017
• Much of the habitable land in the country, which is about the size of Virginia, was denuded of trees decades ago.
  — Jean H. Lee, Esquire, 11 Aug. 2017
• Trudeau said indigenous wildlife, like deer and pronghorn, move more quickly across the landscape and don’t denude it in the way cows do.
  — azcentral, 7 July 2019
• The roads in and out of San Juan are lined by denuded hillsides, their rocky, frayed surfaces exposed to the sunlight.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, NOLA.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Think of an orchard too densely packed with trees, each getting in the others’ light and denuding their soil.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Grasshoppers, which thrive in warm and arid weather have taken over and are beginning to denude trees.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 June 2021
• Vast swaths, particularly along the banks of the Coosa River, were denuded of trees.
  — al, 19 Jan. 2020
• In Wellfleet, at the mouth of the Herring River, swaths of cordgrass growing along the water’s edge are missing large patches, denuded down to the bare earth like craters.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• People in search of firewood for heat and cooking have denuded their hills, causing floods and droughts and making silt pile up at dams.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018
• The roads, curbs and water and sewer lines for the first 82 houses are nearly ready, spiraling up a hillside that has been denuded of trees.
  — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2019
• The new owners denuded the land, turning it into farmland, seen as far more profitable.
  — Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
• Curators at the Louvre denuded its walls of masterpieces such as the Mona Lisa and its floors of priceless sculptures.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2020
• This is where the plot is lost, over four words that denude the Second Amendment of any modern-day contextual value and meaning.
  — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• Picture One, an aerial photograph taken in 1951, shows the area on the west side of the road:clear-cut, mowed down, absolutely denuded of trees.
  — Ed Regis, WIRED, 1 Feb. 1997
• If a shrub is mostly denuded already, though, don’t bother … the larvae will soon move on to adulthood or starve, and the dogwood will regrow as long as its roots are still healthy.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 17 Aug. 2023
• Denuded of its wetlands and mangrove forests from Texas to Florida, much of the coastline started slumping into the sea.
  — Philip Connors, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• These caterpillars have denuded whole branches of my small tree!
  — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• Mudslides were a possible result of the recent wildfires' denuding the hillsides of trees.
  — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
• Artillery, air strikes, and tank attacks had long since denuded the ridge of vegetation, but the surrounding hillsides and valleys were a jungle of trees and vines.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 15 May 2018
• Hillsides around the camps have been denuded of trees, which has left the underlying soil vulnerable to landslides.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 11 June 2018
• There are plenty of people around the N.B.A. who dislike the turn the game has taken—who find the barrage of threes boring, dislike the way defenses have been denuded, and find dominance by the few a little dull.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The roads leading out of San Juan are lined by denuded hillsides, the storm acting like a blowtorch, searing off leaves and lifting away topsoil, their rocky, browned, frayed surfaces exposed to the sunlight.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
• Leafless, branchless trees, denuded by Maria’s winds, are tangled around one another and spill out into the highway.
  — Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• Hillsides were denuded by logging and streams and creeks had become polluted.
  — Washington Post, 16 May 2018
• Basra largely has been denuded of security forces other than police since 2014 as army units went north to fight ISIS.
  — Kimberly Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• The best parts of the film—the visual sound and the visual style—are directly borrowed from its predecessor, though denuded of their 1980s-ness: goodbye shoulder pads and obsequious synths.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 7 Oct. 2017
• After a long pause, Moss collects herself, and offers an answer that denudes the vulnerability at the heart of her labor.
  — Sophy Romvari, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023
• During the months that the American bill was debated and denuded, the British Kindertransports continued.
  — Ellen Umansky, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024