EXPOSE in a Sentence

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165 example sentences for EXPOSE, such as:

1. When the husbands came they joined in the expose.
2. He has simply been exposed as an adulterer and a fool.
3. When he smiled he exposed a set of perfect white teeth.
4. All exposed skin should be covered with protective cream.
5. Nuclear testing has exposed millions of people to radiation.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXPOSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
expose
 v.  set forth; set out to public view
Classic Sentence: (129 in 9 pages)
1  When your mother took to her bed she bade me write you that under no condition were you to come home and expose yourself and Wade to the disease.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  Already Frank and Pitty were begging her not to expose herself--and them--to embarrassment and she had promised them to stop work in June.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
3  Sometimes when Scarlett saw guests sitting on the grass, sipping tea, the only refreshment the Wilkeses could afford, she wondered how Melanie could bring herself to expose her poverty so shamelessly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  She insisted that Scarlett go driving in the afternoons, little though Scarlett wished to expose herself to the eager curious gaze of her fellow townspeople.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
5  Of the ladies, this left only Mrs. Dorset unaccounted for, and Mrs. Dorset never came down till luncheon: her doctors, she averred, had forbidden her to expose herself to the crude air of the morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  But sympathy won the day, and he besought her not to expose herself: he always connected the outer air with ideas of exposure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  When the husbands came they joined in the expose.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  Removing this hatch we expose the great try-pots, two in number, and each of several barrels' capacity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
9  Forbidden to stir even a hand, and almost afraid to breath, lest they should expose the frail fabric to the fury of the stream, the passengers watched the glancing waters in feverish suspense.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
10  Approaching Uncas, she held the blazing brand in such a manner as to cast its red glare on his person, and to expose the slightest emotion of his countenance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
11  There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
12  She wanted to expose them, as it were, to douche them, with present-time reality.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
13  "That were to expose thee to the gaze of those dogs of Ishmael and of Edom," whispered Isaac, with a suspicious glance towards the crowd of knights and squires.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
14  I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  From every gesture and expression I could see that he was a reserved, self-contained man, with a dash of pride in his nature, more likely to hide his wounds than to expose them.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
Example Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
16  Nuclear testing has exposed millions of people to radiation.
17  When he smiled he exposed a set of perfect white teeth.
18  Vaccination is essential to protect people exposed to hepatitis B infection.
19  The gold medalist has been widely exposed to the public on television.
20  He has simply been exposed as an adulterer and a fool.
21  All exposed skin should be covered with protective cream.
22  Depletion of the ozone layer leaves the earth's surface increasingly exposed to harmful radiation from the sun.
23  He exposed his children to music throughout their formative years.
24  He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
25  The reporter exposed details about rampant corruption in city government.
26  An unbiased account of her family problems was exposed in that file.
27  These dogs are housed in fetid, dark sheds and barns or left outside in cages exposed to the cold, the heat, the rain and the snow.
28  At least forty nine people were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation.
29  Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions.
30  He received years of praise and admiration from the public that he did not deserve, and now he is exposed as a fraud.