Use naked in a sentence
Sentences starting with naked
- Naked swordsmen, with upright and shining blades, were followed by men on camels bearing kettle-drums. [11]
Sentences ending with naked
- And He said, Who told thee that thou wart naked? [11]
- In 1880, in the night, he tied his young wife to a tree by the public road, cut her across the face with a cowhide, and made his dogs tear her clothes from her, leaving her naked. [5]
- Shall I be so unnatural, as not to give bread to the hungrie, or uncharitable, as not to cover the naked? [4]
- When they awoke, one of them, Johannes--surnamed Smithianus--said, We are naked. [5]
- She came at once upon a handsomely engraved and colored frontispiece--a human figure, stark naked. [5]
- In certain breeds of the pigeon and fowl the feathers are plumose, with some tendency in the shafts to be naked. [1]
- The corpse lay in a shallow shell, and was under cover of a white cloth, but was otherwise naked. [5]
- He was gashed from head to foot, and naked. [11]
- They tore the clothes off her, and she was naked. [5]
- They were being cared for by a bushman, who had found them in the plains, delirious and nearly naked. [11]
Short sentences using naked
- Yes, indeedy; naked, too. [5]
- Wouldst kill a naked man? [5]
- Otherwise stark naked. [5]
Sentences containing naked two or more times
- She saw the world naked, with a naked eye. [11]
- Only naked eye could meet that naked eye, imperfect though his own sight was. [11]
More example sentences with the word naked in them
- Here three naked youths, with trays upon their heads, cried aloud at each doorway what, interpreted, was: "Pies! [11]
- The Roman attacks you with naked weapons, but you slink in the dark, like a scorpion, and try to sting your enemy in the heel. [10]
- He is not willing to stand in the face of that direct, naked, and impudent absurdity; he has, therefore, modified his language into that of being "controlled as other property. [7]
- Argue as you will and long as you will, this is the naked front and aspect of the measure. [7]
- How much more wholesome a picture of humanity than such stuff as the author of the "Night Thoughts" has left us: "Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself That hideous sight, a naked human heart. [6]
- All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic. [2]
- The old "hangings" were yet preserved in the chambers, faded, but still showing their rich patterns,--properly entitled to their name, for they were literally hung upon flat wooden frames like trellis-work, which again were secured to the naked partitions. [6]
- Their naked feet were torn, and none walked without a limp. [5]
- And so this went on, the naked man perishing with anxiety, and expecting every moment to see people come in sight. [5]
- The well-trained and well-armed Romans seemed to have an easy task with their naked opponents, who, in a hand to hand fight, could not avail themselves of either their arrows or their spears. [10]
- The valley which we followed down probably owes its celebrity to the uncommon phenomena of occasional naked rocks and precipices. [4]
- A burly wine-grower was elected to represent Dionysus and was seated with nothing but some wreaths of flowers to cover his naked limbs, in a four-wheeled sacrificial car of beaten brass. [10]
- Surrounded as he was by hills on every side, naked rocks dared the efforts of his energies. [5]
- This ancient temple was built of rough blocks of lava, and was simply a roofless inclosure a hundred and thirty feet long and seventy wide --nothing but naked walls, very thick, but not much higher than a man's head. [5]
- This is a very simple proposition,--a very plain and naked one. [7]
- These nerves get very sensitive in old librarians, sometimes, and they do not like to have a volume meddled with any more than they would like to have their naked eyes handled. [6]
- The place was vast, naked, dreary; its court a barn, its galleries stalls for human horses. [5]
- The sun rose upon wrecked and smoking buildings, and upon mutilated corpses lying here, there, and yonder about the streets, just as they fell, and stripped naked by thieves, the unholy gleaners after the mob. [5]
- The sandy path, trodden by their naked feet, gave no sound, the mountains seemed to withhold their shade, the light of clay was a torment--every thing far and near seemed inimical to the living. [10]
- The interviewer seldom tries to tell one how a thing was said; he merely puts in the naked remark and stops there. [5]
- As to impressions transmitted at a very early period of existence, every one knows the story of King James's fear of a naked sword, and the way it is accounted for. [6]
- As Fleda came towards him, under the same trees which had shielded her from the sun months ago--now nearly naked and bare--something in her look and bearing sharply caught his interest. [11]
- His being naked too is a great help. [10]
- Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus--with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor. [5]
- I wish further to say that I do not propose to question the patriotism or to assail the motives of any man or class of men, but rather to confine myself strictly to the naked merits of the question. [7]
- I finally came to a marsh, a thicket of alders, and around this the mountain closed in an amphitheatre of naked perpendicular rock a thousand feet high. [4]
- It was as though, fully armed for his battle of life, he had suddenly been stripped of armour and every weapon, and left naked on the field. [11]
- One after another those paralyzing seizures which had been like deadening blows on the naked heart seemed to repeat themselves, as real as at the moment of their occurrence. [6]
- Now all of this is but naked claim; and what I have already said about claims is strictly applicable to this. [7]
- If one of them says to another of his own class--a naked wretch who wears about him everything he happens to possess--that he is a dog, he answers with a blow of his fist in the other's face, and what can be plainer than that! [10]
- In sign of their poverty they are sent to their grave naked, in sign of their equality the bones of the rich, the poor, the illustrious and the obscure are flung into the common well together. [5]
- They stood as their forefathers in battle, almost naked, with crested head, gleaming axe, scalp-knife, and bows and arrows. [11]
- He felt now the smarting anger, the outraged vanity of the wrong-doer who, having argued down his own conscience, and believing he has blinded others as himself, suddenly finds that himself and his motives are naked before the world. [11]
- Like islands in the shining yellow sea, are houses--sometimes in a clump of trees, sometimes only like bare-backed domesticity or naked industry in the workfield. [11]
- If I harry the rich in the midst of the Dakoon's men, it is gaining my own over naked swords. [11]
- With respect to the origin of the habit, Von Fischer remarks that his monkeys like to have their naked hinder ends patted or stroked, and that they then grunt with pleasure. [1]
- I had caught the one glimpse of our first lieutenant in converse with their captain and another officer, when a naked seaman came charging at me. [9]
- The first is the naked individual protest; the voice of the inspiration which giveth man understanding. [6]
- Napoleon, standing on the knoll, looked through a field glass, and in its small circlet saw smoke and men, sometimes his own and sometimes Russians, but when he looked again with the naked eye, he could not tell where what he had seen was. [2]
- In both classes the change of colour is sometimes seasonal, and the tints of the naked parts sometimes become more vivid during the act of courtship. [1]
- So I insist that this important part of speech should be brought forward to a position where it may be easily seen with the naked eye. [5]
- These people--I suppose that if two castaways landed naked on a desert island, one of them would instantly be the ancien regime--had spoken of Mrs. Henderson and her ambition to the Earl of Chisholm in a way that pained him. [4]
- I was satisfied that I could see all these details with my naked eye; but when I tried it, that mule and those vivid people had wholly vanished, and the house itself was become small and vague. [5]
- In less time than it takes me to write these words he had dragged a hideous, naked warrior out of the brambles, and with an avalanche of crumbling earth they slid into the waters of the creek. [9]
- There is a terrible parallax between the period before thirty and that after threescore and ten, as two men of those ages look, one with naked eyes, one through his spectacles, at the man of fifty and thereabout. [6]
- Notwithstanding the high temperature, the country seemed cheerless, the sunlight to fall less genially than in more fertile regions to the south, upon a landscape stripped of its forests, naked, and unpicturesque. [4]
- The second legend tells us how a wonderfully beautiful naked woman could be seen sitting on the summit of one of the pyramids (ut in una ex pyramidibus); and how she drove the wanderers in the desert mad through her exceeding loveliness. [10]
- They beat the tattoo, called the roll, had supper, and settled down round the fires for the night--some repairing their footgear, some smoking pipes, and some stripping themselves naked to steam the lice out of their shirts. [2]
- The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
- At last Dicky suddenly changed his manner and came straight to the naked crisis. [11]
- So to call such an act, to us appears no other than a naked, impudent absurdity, and we speak of it accordingly. [7]
- The Fleshers' was such a dance as in England is called a country dance and they held leather-straps twisted to look like sausages; the cutlers' dance was less clumsy, and they carried naked swords. [10]
- Drops of sweat stood on his brow, and with sudden shame he snatched up his garments that were lying on the ground, and covered his naked limbs. [10]
- Once more that steady pull began, and once more I lay torpid a century of dragging seconds till my breast was naked again. [5]
- I hate a spider, and as for a naked caterpillar,--I believe I should go into a fit if I had to touch one. [6]
- The head is sometimes covered with velvety down, as with the pheasant; or is naked and vividly coloured. [1]
- It was a small room, carpetless, dusty, with a naked deal table, and two cheap wooden chairs for furniture. [5]
- And they themselves sit there nearly naked, like the signboards at our Public Baths if I may say so. [2]
- Crowned with garlands, singing, and utterly careless, we followed soon after them, and had almost reached the quay, when a noisy troop rushed out of a side street, and fell upon us with naked weapons. [10]
- Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail. [2]
- But she didn't shut her door in my face--it's hard to do that to a Duchess; which is one of the few advantages of living naked in the street, as it were, with only the strawberry leaves to clothe you. [11]
- The sombre pines showed up, a wall all round, and in the open space, turreted with fantastic fires, the Indians swayed in and out with weird chanting, their bodies mostly naked, and painted in strange colours. [11]
- It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed--no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. [5]
- As for Kuni, she had gone to carry some linen from her own scanty store to the two babies, who were as naked as little frogs. [10]
- The letters seem shamefully naked, and the owner seems exposed and to have parted with a considerable portion of his innate privacy. [4]
- For instance, one sees with the naked eye a cabin up there beside the glacier, and a little above and beyond he sees the spot where that red light was located; he thinks he could throw a stone from the one place to the other. [5]
- The foreign language seemed to make the truth less naked and staring to himself. [11]
- At this same season the beak and naked skin about the head frequently change colour, as with some herons, ibises, gulls, one of the bell-birds just noticed, etc. [1]
- To poor simple Salech yonder, whom we allowed to tramp half naked at our camels' heels out of pity.--It is his as much as it is yours or mine or the Khaliff's. [10]
- Behind the hills rose the sharply-cut outlines of the naked cliffs of the lofty, distant mountains, and the snowy head of sleeping Mount Etna gleamed brightly through the mist. [10]
- The lad fearlessly rode straight into the Bazaar, and galloped down upon the fugitive, who suddenly swung round to meet him with naked kris; but, as he did so, a dog ran across his path, tripped him up, and he half fell. [11]
- Bare, parched rocks rise in naked beauty at the north of the bay, and the rays of the young day-star shot golden threads through the light white mists, that floated around them. [10]
- All the skeleton-like ribs of the roof showed in the dim light, naked overhead, and the only floor to be trusted consisted of the few boards which bridged the lath and plaster. [6]
- A fine drizzling rain falls hour after hour upon the naked twigs and branches of the trees, and as it falls it freezes. [5]
- The almost naked rabble, too, with nothing on but a loin-cloth, who wriggled in and out of the throng, ready for any service or errand, formed a feature unknown at Rome. [10]
- In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. [7]
- Always handle any positively electrical body, whether it is charged with passion or power, with some non-conductor between you and it, not with your naked hands. [6]
- The crowd suddenly parted like two waves, and retreated; and Mustapha Kali, almost naked, and supported by a stolid Soudanese, stood before the three. [11]
- He tried to paint, and finding the attempt useless, gazed into the garden and at the distant chain of the Guadarrama mountains; but to-day he remained unmoved by the delicate violet-blue mist that floated around the bare, naked peaks of the chain. [10]
- That night, when our chilled feet could bear no more, we sought out a patch of raised ground a little firmer than a quagmire, and heaped up the beginnings of a fire with such brush as could be made to burn, robbing the naked thickets. [9]
- We took the opera glass, and examined its beauties minutely, for the naked eye cannot discern the little wayside flowers, and soft shadows and patches of sunshine, and half-hidden bunches of grass and jets of water which form some of its most enchanting features. [5]
- For lack of one I had been rudely jolted out of the frail shell I had thought so secure, and stood, as it were, naked and shivering to the storms, staring at a world that was no function of me, after all. [9]
- Gilfaron--The first--the language of the Garden, sire, When man spoke with the naked searching thought, Unlacquered of the world. [11]
- At the end of five-and-twenty years of hard fighting, the surviving 300 naked patriots were still defiant, still persistent, still efficacious with their rude weapons, and the Governor and the 40,000 knew not which way to turn, nor what to do. [5]
- Through the tangle of bramble stems at the mouth of the run, above naked brown shoulders there glared at me, hideously streaked with red, a face. [9]
- He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body. [2]
- And does not Nature plant me as an eye to behold her beauties while she is dressed in the glories of leaf and flower, and draw the icy lid over my shining surface when she stands naked and ashamed in the poverty of winter? [6]
- Fared we forth naked, there is none could say which was you, and which the Prince of Wales. [5]
- And, if the naked truth must be told, it was due to Silverdale that Susan owes the honour of her first mention in those descriptive letters from Sutcliffe, which Aunt Mary has kept to this day. [9]
- The beak and naked skin about the head, and the feathers, are often gorgeously coloured. [1]
- He felt pretty naked now, recognizing that he was shorn of all respect except respect for his fists. [5]
- It had been naked before, but he had laughed. [11]
- His soul was naked before his eyes. [11]
- Doubtless a high mountain covered with vegetation has its compensation, but for me the naked granite rocks in sun and shower are more cheerful. [4]
- In half a minute I was as naked as a pair of tongs! [5]
- At last the mines were opened and Joshua himself seized a lamp and pressed forward into the hot galleries where the naked prisoners of state, loaded with fetters, were hewing the copper ore from the walls. [10]
- Although it is mere history--history pure and simple--history stripped naked of flowers, embroideries, colorings, exaggerations, invention--the family agree that I have succeeded. [5]
- Lands and thrones may perish, plague and devastation walk abroad with death, misery and beggary crawl naked to the doorway, and crime cower in the hedges; but to the egregious egotism of young love there are only two identities bulking in the crowded universe. [11]
- He was a man with a reputation for occasional wickednesses of a naked, decided type. [11]
- Don't attempt to look at me with the naked eye, gentlemen! [5]
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