nakedness

How To Use nakedness In A Sentence

• They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
• I have come to this world , stark - naked ; am I to back , blink, in the same stark - nakedness?
• There are similarities in the practices of both sects: initiation is by tearing out the hair, and the lifestyle is one of extreme austerity involving nakedness, penances, and ordeals.
• And from the storm that swirled a formal nakedness took shape, the truth of disguise and the mask of belief were joined forever.
• Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
• The hot, high Sun in the middle of an azure blue wash - straight out of a David Hockney painting, the metal men stood erect, gazing out to sea in all their metalled nakedness.
• Li Yuan rose, knowing it was important, letting Master Nan wrap the cloak about his nakedness.
• I shift into a sitting position, making sure the sheets cover my nakedness.
• Henceforth, men and women are prone to view each other as objects, which is why they are now ashamed of their nakedness.
• The all seemed shocked by her destroying her property and doing it so very thoroughly, that they seemed positively oblivious to her nakedness.