strip

[strɪp]

Definition:
1. To take off all or most of your clothes or another person's clothes.
2. To remove all the things from a place and leave it empty.
3. Remove the surface from.

Use 'strip' in a sentence:

1. The workmen were stripped to the waist.
2. For those of you who don't know the northeast coastal region, Cape Cod is a peninsula, a narrow strip of land that jets out into the Atlantic.
3. Cut the meat into strips.
4. Sensitive Cream will not strip away the skin's protective layer.
5. There was a thin strip of silver beach rising quickly to hills covered to the top with luxuriant vegetation.
6. This ended Israel's decades-long occupation in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
7. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip.
8. All 23 of them were strip-searched for drugs.
9. Make a Mobius strip out of a ribbon of mild steel and magnetise it.
10. First, you need to strip away all the old plaster.
11. Strips of wood are bonded together and moulded by machine.
12. She stripped down to her underwear.
13. The prisoners were stripped naked.
14. If what they're saying is correct, which I believe it is, things like the light source are going to strip atoms from the inside out.
15. One prisoner claimed he'd been dragged to a cell, stripped and beaten.
16. They taught us how to strip down a car engine and put it back together again.
17. Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.
18. Roll out the pastry and cut into narrow strips.
19. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip stories.
20. He had stripped the house of all articles of value.
21. The movie aims to strip away the lies surrounding Kennedy's life.
22. Mr. Porter was subjected to a degrading strip search.
23. In five years I had to strip the water pump down four times.
24. They were, by far, the largest and most distant objects that scientists had ever detected: a strip of enormous cosmic clouds some 15 billion light-years from earth.
25. Is that the air strip?
26. The yacht is built of cedar strip planking.
27. I used my last Breathe Right nasal strip in Denver last weekend, so I bought more today because I had a coupon.
28. According to the invention, the needle has a cannelure (14), for holding a supporting element (19) with a form of strip (20).
29. After the guests had gone, I stripped all the beds.
30. The violence in the Gaza Strip makes the front page of most of the newspapers.
31. He stood there stripped to the waist.
32. Inside, the two small rooms were spare and neat, stripped bare of ornaments.
33. The store's card reader failed to scan the card's magnetic strip.
34. A silver Rolex peeks out from under his cuff, and a vertical strip of white beard drops down from his lower lip like an exclamation mark.
35. He had long laughter lines that creased from the corners of his eyes all the way down to his narrow strip of beard.
36. Guess the answer ahead of time and strip all the decimal places off.
37. I stripped and washed myself all over.
38. They used to have 2 tags attached to one backing strip.
39. The aircraft circled round [around] over the landing strip.
40. He stripped off his wet clothes and stepped into the shower.
41. In a minibus it takes fully 20 minutes from the helicopter landing strip at Camp Dwyer to the base's main administrative area.
42. Serve dish with strips of fresh raw vegetables.
43. The floors had been stripped and sealed with varnish.
44. He hastily stripped off his old uniform and began pulling on the new one.
45. The runway is simply a strip of grass.
46. His bandages had been made from strips of cloth.
47. He was stripped naked and left in a cell.
48. The islands are separated by a narrow strip of water.
49. We had to strip out all the old wiring and start again.
50. Strip off all the existing paint.
51. Farmers struggling for survival strip the forests for agricultural land.
52. The gold is beaten out into thin strips.
53. Cut the vegetables into thin strips.
54. The strips of willow are woven into baskets.
55. He tied a metal key and a strip of silk to the kite line.