How to Use naked in a Sentence

naked

adjective
  • He was naked from the waist up.
  • Halve the naked lemon and squeeze the juice into the bowl.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Their eggs are tiny and can look like bits of dirt to the naked eye.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • This is the first time in my life that strangers have looked at me naked.
    — Mosab Abu Toha, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • The mammoth, naked from the midriff up, looked as though he were headed to the pool.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Do not stare at the sun with your naked eyes during the eclipse.
    — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Or: There is a dead man, naked in the desert, holding a straw.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
  • In 1947, Short's naked corpse was found in a vacant lot.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 6 June 2023
  • Cold and naked, with the eyes of the world on me, or perhaps looking through me.
    — Django Gold, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Uranus is too far to be seen by the naked eye, of course, and so is Neptune.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 7 June 2022
  • Kendall Jenner has put her own spin on the naked dress trend.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Apr. 2023
  • One way to feel better naked is to…take your clothes off.
    — Carina Hsieh, SELF, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Late in the premiere, Oz is fully naked and tied up to a chair.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
  • For now, though, Menke took comfort in what the naked eye was telling him.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Hard not to read the lush blacks in his naked Black back as a criticism of that.
    — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
  • When Seales scanned them, nothing appeared to the naked eye.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Well, a lot of people have been pretty naked at the VMAs.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Hailey Bieber is in the running to become queen of the naked dress.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Dec. 2022
  • They’re best seen with the naked eye or a pair of binoculars.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • Bill wore bright green tights and, bathed in warm shadows, was stripped naked by fairies at the end of the play.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • That night, Gandy emerged from a shower, naked, and approached the teen.
    — Abigail Pesta, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Yet her body — later seen naked — is a child's, thin and gawky.
    — Kristin McMurran, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • To the naked eye, the moon should look like a bite is being taken out of the lunar disk.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Few have leaned in with such naked abandon as Bruno Le Maire.
    — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 30 May 2023
  • This naked sword fight is at the gates of hell and is this full circle of this revenge.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Doja Cat took the naked dress to new heights at the 2024 Grammys on Sunday.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In at least one post liked by McNally, the man is naked.
    — Andy Sher, Shelby Farmer Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. (tns), al, 10 Mar. 2023
  • His costar was at least partially naked in the dirty flick.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • In the first episode, Lochlan watches Saxon undress and stares a little too long at him naked.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 24 Mar. 2025
  • But when women are naked, Margaret Qualley as well, in The Substance, nobody would dream of talking to her about her genitalia or her nipples or any of those things.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025

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