Sentence examples for has been strip from inspiring English sources
"Virginia has been strip mining horseshoe crabs," declared Daniel P. Beard, vice president of the National Audubon Society, in praising the federal action to protect a critical resource that scientists say has been decimated in the last decade.
"We are talking about the country's musical history that this guy has been strip mining," said Bill Ecker, a New York dealer who unknowingly bought a stolen 1879 letter from the suspect and helped lead the Israeli police to the arrest.
He is someone who has been strip-mined of ordinary emotion by life and by the job.
He has been strip-searched hundreds of times, supposedly because of security concerns, and he has been separated from visitors by a glass partition, for the same reason.
It feels as if the landscape has been strip-mined through the layers of human contacts, tentative hopes and intricate compromise down to the bedrock -- a place that nobody who wants peace dares to go.
"The winter theme has been stripped out".
Everything inessential has been stripped away.
Another has been stripped for parts.
Because it has been stripped, we must "enrich" it.
Parliament has been stripped of many of its Shia representatives.
Paint has been stripped off, windows have shattered.
