undressing

• Barely undressing, they fell together onto the unmade bed that Lysander had left in such a hurry earlier that morning, their limbs tangling in a maelstrom of hunger and need as they could no longer deny dancing to the primordial tune that was driving them. —  TheMediterraneanMillionaire’sMistress
• After undressing, the Jews went into the gas chambers, which were furnished with showers and water pipes and gave a realistic impression of a bathhouse. —  Commandant of Auschwitz
• She dallied over her undressing, and when Bridgie joined her half an hour later, sat perched upon the bed, dressing-gowned, her hands clasped round her knees, watching with admiring eyes the picture of her sweet-faced sister seated before the dressing-table engaged in brushing out her long fair hair You've a fine head of hair, me dear! —  The Love Affairs of Pixie
• When he was undressing, therefore, he listened with some anxiety for her footsteps, and, when she appeared, he was ready with his confession of idleness. —  The Crofton Boys
• He was giving up his search for any practical solution when the whistle of a steam-vessel coming into port seemed to blow him an answer by suggesting a scheme Then he threw himself on his bed without undressing, and dozed and dreamed until daybreak At a little before nine he went out to ascertain whether his plans were feasible. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

Word Family