He said he did not mind the denuded trees or the pool of mud that replaced the lawn and gardens, or the halving of the beach by erosion.

Ms. Lee takes discarded building plans pasted to plywood as a starting point for ironic paintings of denuded trees and vines.

A cloudy, cataract-like ground mist was creeping slowly through the denuded trees.

It went in and stood erect like some denuded tree.

Now, before him, the enclosed port looked like a forest of denuded trees, so numerous were the masts of the vessels crowding the sheltered waters.

There was a strange silence in the denuded trees last week.

In the early days, the fire lookout operator would simply climb a denuded tree and would sit upon a 2'x2' platform chair atop that tree.

They drove in silence, squeezed into a street level parking spot, and headed off into the denuded trees.

The denuded trees with their blackened trunks and branches could have been the inspiration for T. S. Eliot's last dingdong of doom.

Red drapery and silver strips of sheet metal flapped like flags from the upper limbs of the few denuded trees that still stood.