Used in a Sentence

strip

How to use strip in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for strip.

Editorial note

No fuss, no body strip checks, no taking off pieces of clothing.

Examples11
Definitions19
Parts of speech2

Quick take

a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of strip gathered in one view.

noun

a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

noun

artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

noun

an airfield without normal airport facilities

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for strip.

noun

a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

noun

artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

noun

an airfield without normal airport facilities

noun

a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book

noun

thin piece of wood or metal

noun

a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone"

verb

take away possessions from someone; "The Nazis stripped the Jews of all their assets"

verb

remove the surface from; "strip wood"

verb

remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil"

verb

remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

verb

strip the cured leaves from; "strip tobacco"

verb

remove the thread (of screws)

verb

remove a constituent from a liquid

verb

take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper"

verb

draw the last milk (of cows)

verb

remove (someone's or one's own) clothes; "The nurse quickly undressed the accident victim"; "She divested herself of her outdoor clothes"; "He disinvested himself of his garments"

Example sentences

1

No fuss, no body strip checks, no taking off pieces of clothing.

2

?Regarding the strip-club comment, I don't know the best way to avoid it.

3

Thanks to Bin Laden, now you practically get strip searched for every flight.

4

So isNaN is just the predicate we need to strip out the whitespace characters.

5

This dispersion was used to dip-coat strips of filter paper, rendering the paper conductive.

6

I can think of one time when Marco asked for both root and serial access to one of my boxes so he could debug a HBA. I gave him root on the system, root on the serial concentrator box, and root access to the network enabled power strip for hard reboots.

7

My god, the quote from that "white hat" SEO guy just defies belief:> There will certainly be webmasters out there who will strip you down to the bone asking for money in exchange of link removals.

8

It can be fascinating and beautiful and it can send you mad. Fall into the trap of believing that poker is a worthwhile pursuit of itself and you end up in the trap - living out of your car or on the crappy end of the Vegas strip, some weeks a millionaire, some weeks a bankrupt.

9

VC-istan execs tend to have inappropriate, power-imbalanced office affairs, traders and bankers go strip clubs more often than is healthy... programmers swear slightly more than average and some are socially awkward.

10

Here is one of those oh-so-productive HN threads where virtually everyone is competing to find either cleverer or more emphatic ways of agreeing with the same statement; in this case, it's "the government shouldn't regulate encryption", but it might just as well be "the government shouldn't be electronically strip searching people at airports".This phenomenon presents a manifold of problems, including:* Because we appear to be unable to move past the most immediately obvious point, we can't fit any other thoughts in our head, like, "maybe there is a real societal problem that needs to be addressed here" --- not by regulating encryption, but, for instance, perhaps by allocating funding and training differently.

11

If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have kill lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use strip in a sentence?

No fuss, no body strip checks, no taking off pieces of clothing.

What does strip mean?

a relatively long narrow piece of something; "he felt a flat strip of muscle"

What part of speech is strip?

strip is commonly used as noun, verb.