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
  • All looked reasonably healthy, if denuded of tree and shrub cover.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • These caterpillars have denuded whole branches of my small tree!
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The school itself is one story and sprawling, the campus denuded of pine trees.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Grasshoppers, which thrive in warm and arid weather have taken over and are beginning to denude trees.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 June 2021
  • 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 new owners denuded the land, turning it into farmland, seen as far more profitable.
    — Kang-Chun Cheng, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hillsides were denuded by logging and streams and creeks had become polluted.
    — Washington Post, 16 May 2018
  • The roads in and out of San Juan are lined by denuded hillsides, their rocky, frayed surfaces exposed to the sunlight.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Mudslides were a possible result of the recent wildfires' denuding the hillsides of trees.
    — Mark Berman, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 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
  • Hillsides around the camps have been denuded of trees, which has left the underlying soil vulnerable to landslides.
    — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Vast swaths, particularly along the banks of the Coosa River, were denuded of trees.
    — al, 19 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In each case, the source genre is denuded, reduced to an unobtrusive lilt — reggae as signifier, not engine.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 27 May 2016
  • 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
  • And more recently, in the throes of a homeless crisis, city staff and law enforcement have removed and denuded trees to control the conditions on the street.
    — Sam Bloch august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • When hill slopes are denuded of their surface soil cover by fire or other processes, the resulting increase in runoff and erosion is nearly inevitable.
    — Lee MacDonald, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Although gulf fritillaries can denude passion vines of all foliage, the leaves quickly grow back, and fruit development is not affected.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026

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